Eric Findon

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'''Eric Charles Findon''' (2 March 1913 – 25 August 1941) was a male English international table tennis player and actor.

==Table tennis career== He was selected to represent England during the 1934 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup. The other team members were Don Foulis, Herbert 'Willie' Hales, Ken Hyde and Andrew Millar and they finished in seventh place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/|title=Swaythling Cup results|date=9 February 2024|publisher=tischtennis-infos.de|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=5 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Spalding 'Eric Findon Autograph' table tennis bat was named after him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1937-38/tt_issue20.pdf|title=SPALDING continues to lead in all TABLE TENNIS EQUIPMENT, page 4|publisher=Table Tennis England|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=18 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170618130449/https://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1937-38/tt_issue20.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was the owner and editor of 'The Table Tennis World' magazine in 1931.

==Acting career== He appeared as a teenager in two feature films called ''The Rising Generation'' (1928) and ''Cupid in Clover'' (1929).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1189318/?ref_=tt_cl_t2|title=Eric Findon Profile|publisher=IMdb}}</ref>

==Death== He was killed in action during World War II in Wavre, Walloon Brabant, serving with the 78 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2896619/findon,-eric-charles/|title=Sergeant (Pilot) FINDON, ERIC CHARLES|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves}}</ref>

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