Eric Olivier

Eric Olivier (24 November 1888 — 1 June 1925) was a South African first-class cricketer who played in England for Cambridge University and Hampshire prior to the First World War.

He played seven times for Hampshire in the County Championship,[4] taking 7 wickets at an average of 51.28, with best figures of 4 for 30.

[3] In the First World War Olivier first served as a trooper in the Union Defence Force during the South-West Africa Campaign.

[3] In March 1917, he was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant (on probation) on the General List to serve in the British Army's Royal Flying Corps (RFC).

He gained his fifth victory, and "ace" status, on 6 December, when he, Captain Oliver Bryson and Lieutenant's Arthur Fairclough and R. G. Holt, drove down another Type C east of Roeselare.

[1] Lieutenant Olivier was transferred to the Royal Air Force's (which had subsumed the RFC) unemployed list in December 1918.