Northumbrian Gunner: Ypyes 2016 - Tyne Cot 2/Lt DG Eagar

Cross of Sacrifice
Tyne Cot

Commemorated at Tyne Cot is 2nd. Lieut. DG Eagar who served with 160^th (Wearside) Brigade Royal Field Artillery. The Brigade was a New Army unit raised in early 1915 by Alderman Stanefield Richardson, the Mayor of Sunderland and the Recruiting Committee. The Brigade was allocated to the 34th Divisional Artillery.

Denis Geoffrey Eagar was born 10 December 1898 the son of the late Captain Edward Boaz Eagar. His father served with the Northumberland Fusiliers and was killed at the relief of Kimberley on 23 November 1899. A brother, Francis Russell Eagar, served as a Regular Officer in the Royal Field Artillery and was killed in 1915.

He attended Farnborough School, then Sherborne School from May 1912 to July 1917. He volunteered to join the Royal Field Artillery and was commissioned 21^st January 1918. He served with B Battery 160^th (Wearside Brigade).

2nd Lieut. Derek Geoffrey Eager
B Battery 160th (Wearside) Brigade RFA

On the 28th September 1918 he was killed by a sniper on the edge of Wytschaete Wood whilst acting as a Forward Observation Officer to his Battery.

2nd Lieutenant Eagar has no know grave, he is recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial.