Eric Andreasen

Private Eric Julius Andreasen was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1919, in Stow, the son of Norwegian-born Julius Christian and Nora Andreasen (née Pearl), of Elswells. 
Aged 23, Andreasen died on 5 April 1943 while a prisoner of war in Japanese-occupied Singapore. His battalion, the 4th Suffolks, had fallen into captivity when Japan occupied the colony in February 1942. An older brother, Carl, a private in the Dorsetshire Regiment, had died in England in November 1942.
He is buried in Kranji War Cemetery.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Andreasen, Eric Julins, cwgc.org. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
Category:1919 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Norwegian descent
Category:Buried in Singapore
Category:Privates