Eric Francis Summers

Eric Francis Summers (service number 73797) was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force who died on 15 June 1942 at the age of 35. Before the war he had worked as a chartered accountant, and his five appearances in the London Gazette between September 1939 and February 1942 — consistent in format with the officer commission and promotion notices of that period — suggest a career that moved steadily through the RAF’s wartime officer ranks from the earliest days of the conflict. He was the son of Thomas Francis and Mabel Rose Summers, and the husband of Jean Beatrix Summers, of Bracknell, Berkshire. The specific unit with which he was serving at the time of his death has not been established from available sources, and no decoration has been independently confirmed for him. He is commemorated on Panel 5 of Woking (St. John’s) Crematorium, Surrey.