Captain Eric Cheyne Greenwood HAUSSER
5th Battalion Machine Gun Corps attached to the Tank Corps

Date of birth: 5th May 1894
Date of death: 1959

Died aged 65
Unknown
Eric Cheyne Greenwood Hausser was born at Ningpo in China on the 5th of May 1894 the eldest son of Pierre Frederick Hausser, British Consul General of Mukden, and Louisa Helen (nee Brandon) Hausser of 10 Kensington Mansions and later of 7 Tuftnell House, Anson Road in North London. He was christened on the 6th of July 1896 at St Peter's Church, Cranley Gardens in London.

He returned from the Far East in July 1905 and was educated at Hazelwood School until April 1908 where he was a member of the Football XI in 1907. The school magazine wrote the following of his season that year: - "(Back) - Made an enormous advance; goes "very straight" but does not always temper his zeal with discretion; weak with the left foot, and inclined to "sky" the ball."

On leaving the school the magazine wrote of him: - ".....goes to Radley, where his papers were of a high standard - 85 per cent for Latin, 75 per cent French, 60 per cent Mathematics. He was a useful member of the Football XI, entered very keenly into the general life of the school, and was a universal favourite."

He went on to Radley College where he was in Mr Stone’s House from April 1908 to July 1911 when he went to Bedford College. On leaving school he went to work for the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank.

Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn on the 4th of November 1915. At a medical examination, which was held on the same day, it was recorded that he was five feet six and one half inches tall, that he weighed 140lbs and that he needed glasses. He was sent for training at Berkhamsted and was appointed to the rank of unpaid Lance Corporal in No. 2 Company on the 15th of July 1916.

On the 12th of June 1916 he applied for a commission in the 12th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment but instead was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps, Cadet Section on the 30th of September 1916 and, after training, into the Corps itself on the 28th of October 1916.

He was posted to E Battalion Machine Gun Corps and embarked at Southampton on the 25th of June 1917, landing at Le Havre the following day where he joined the 5th Battalion of his regiment. On the 29th of January 1918 he went on leave and rejoined his unit in the field on the 12th of February. He was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant on the 29th of April 1918 and to Acting Captain while commanding a Section on the 28th of June 1918, a rank he relinquished on the 4th of March 1919.

He was granted leave to the UK from the 20th of September 1918 and rejoined his unit in France on the 21st of October. The following day he received orders to return to the UK to join a new battalion of the Tank Corps and returned home on the 18th of October.

On leaving the army he left for Nigeria from Liverpool on board the SS "Appam" on the 13th of July 1921 where he worked as a trader and a planter. During the Second World War he worked for the Abercorn Trading Company; he was a member of the Public Schools Club.

He died in Northern Rhodesia.
Went on to Radley College

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