Eric Ferguson

Bank: National Bank of Scotland

Place of work: Newton Stewart branch

Died: 11 April 1943

Eric Hannah Ferguson was born in Chorlton, Lancashire in 1920. He worked for National Bank of Scotland at its Newton Stewart branch.

Upon the outbreak of the Second World War Ferguson left the bank to serve in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. By 1943 he was a Flying Officer, serving in a unit which flew two-man planes specially equipped with transmitters which could block German radar, preventing detection of the bombers flying behind. On one such sortie to the Dutch coast on 11 April 1943, Ferguson's plane was shot down and crashed into the sea, killing both men on board. Flying Officer Ferguson was 22 years old.

Eric Ferguson is commemorated on a bank war memorial at Gogarburn campus, Edinburgh.