OBITUARY
SIR ERIC GEDDES
MUNITIONS AND TRANSPORT
United Press Assoclation.-Ey Electric Tele, ijrapti.—Copyrlßl.il.
(Received June 23, 3 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. The death has occurred of Sir Eric Geddes, chairman of Imperial Airways, Ltd., and a former Cabinet member.
Sir Eric Geddes was born in 1875. Educated at the Oxford Military Collage, and Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, he was intended for the Army. At the age of 17 years, however, he went to America for engineering experience, worked at lumbering in the soutii3rn States, and also was four years with an American railway company. He next spent six years on railways in India. Called to England by the North-eastern Railway Company in 1903, he was general manager of its system from 1906. On the outbreak of war in 1014 he was retained by Lord Kitchener in the War Depart-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 147, 23 June 1937, Page 12
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