Eric Virgin (officer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish officer (1876-1950)
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Place of Birth: Skövde, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
About Eric Virgin (officer)
- Eric Virgin (18 May 1876 – 12 May 1950) was a Swedish Air Force general.
- Originally a Swedish Army officer, Virgin became commanding officer of the Svea Train Corps (T 1) in 1926 and was appointed Inspector of the Swedish Army Service Troops the year after.
- In 1931 he was appointed Chief of the Air Force for the newly established Swedish Air Force.
- Virgin left the position as major general in 1934 to become advisor to the Emperor of Abyssinia.
- He left Abyssinia two days before the outbreak of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935 and back in Sweden he was placed in the Swedish Air Force reserve where he remained until 1947.
- Virgin died three years later.
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