Captain, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of ill health at Fulbrook, Elstead, Surrey 26 March 1902. Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.). Also commemorated on Old Boys Chapel Plaque, Radley College, Abingdon, Oxfordshire and on a Tablet to Captain E Streatfield of the Gordon Highlanders, in the Parish Church, Chiddingstone, Kent.

Extract from The Last Post - Roll of Officers who fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner, published by Naval and Military Press

Streatfield.—Capt. Eric Streatfield, D.S.O., 2nd Batt. Gordon Highlanders, died at Fulbrook, Elstead, Surrey, March 26th, 1902. He was the fifth son of the late Lieut.-Col. Henry Dorrien Streatfield, of Chiddingstone, Edenbridge, Kent, Lord of the Manors of Chiddingstone, etc., by his marriage with Marion, daughter of Oswald A. Smith, Esq. Capt. Streatfield was a brother of Lieut.-Col. Henry Streatfield, private secretary to F.-M. Earl Roberts. He was born in Feb., 1864, educated at Radley, where he was in the school rowing and football teams, and entered the Gordon Highlanders from the 4th Batt. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in April, i886, being promoted capt. Sept., 1896. He was A.D.C. to Major- General Ivor Herbert, commanding the militia of the Dominion of Canada, in May and June, 189o, and again from Dec., 189o, till Aug., 1895, and was adjutant of the 2nd battalion of his regiment from Nov., 1897, to Feb., 1901. Capt. Streatfield was serving in South Africa at the outbreak of the war, having accompanied his battalion from India to Natal in Sept., 1899. He took part in the defence of Ladysmith, being mentioned in the despatches of Sir George White, Dec. 2nd, 1899, and March 23rd, 190o, L.G., Feb. 8th and Sept. loth, 1901, and was awarded the D.S.O. He retired from the army on account of ill-health March, 14th, 1902, and died as stated on the 26th of the same month.

Extract from The V.C. and D.S.O. Book, Distinguished Service order 1886-1915

STREATFEILD, ERIC, Capt., was born 6 Feb. 1864 ; he was gazetted Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders, from the Militia, 28 April, 1886 ; was A.D.C. to the G.O.C., Militia, Dominion of Canada, 8 May, 1890, to 30 June, 1890, and 5 Dec. 1890, to 31 Aug. 1895 ; became Captain, 1 Sept. 1896, and Adjutant, Gordon Highlanders, 18 Nov. 1897. He served in the South African War ; was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 27 Sept. 1901] : " Eric Streatfeild, Capt.; Gordon Highlanders. In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa." The Insignia were presented by the King 29 Oct. 1901. Capt. Streatfeild died 26 May, 1902.

Plaque in Chiddingstone Parish Church reads takes the form of an ornate sculpted tablet of white marble against a stele of unpolished mottled grey marble. The tablet is surmounted by accoutrements of a highland officer in marble: his sword sheathed with buckled swordbelt, bonnet and representations of the Distinguished Service Order and Queens South Africa medal with two bars. Also three heraldic devices: crest of the Streatfields, coat of arms of the Streatfields, regimental badge of the Gordon Highlanders.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
CAPTAIN ERIC STREATFEILD, DSO
THE 2ND BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS, (XCII)
FIFTH SON OF COLONEL STREATFIELD, OF CHIDDINGSTONE:
BORN 6TH FEBRUARY 1864, DIED 24TH MARCH 1902
INVALIDED HOME FROM SOUTH AFRICA AFTER THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH,
WHERE HE ACTED AS ADJUTANT OF THE 2ND BATTN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS
AND WHOSE DEATH WAS DUE TO HARDSHIPS ENDURED DURING THE SIEGE. "COURTEOUS IN HIS MANNER OF DEALING WITH ALL RANKS,
AN EXAMPLE OF BRAVERY UNFLINCHING IN HIS DUTIES
CAPTAIN STREATFIELD CONTRACTED THE DISEASE WHICH/ HAS NOW PROVED FATAL DURING THE SIEGE OF LADYSMITH,
AND THE COMMANDING OFFICER FEELS SURE THAT ALL THAT
KNEW HIM, WILL, AS HE DOES, FEEL HIS LOSS GREATLY"
EXTRACT FROM BATTN ORDERS