Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Edward Henry Teasdale, a hosiery manufacturer, born 1854 in Manchester, Lancashire and his wife Fanny Henrietta Knox (nee Sedley, married on the 5th September 1892 in St. John the Divine Church, Leicester), born 1855 in Berthampore, India. Eric Henry Janson was born on the 21st April 1896 in Leicester and was baptised on the 19th May 1896 in St. John the Baptist Church, Leicester, in March 1901 the family home was at Leicester Road, Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. In April 1911 Eric was a schoolboy and was residing in the family home at Leicester Road, Kibworth Harcourt, together with his father, an underwear manufacturer and his mother. On the 30th October 1912 at Kibworth Harcourt, Eric’s father died aged 58. Eric was awarded the British War and Victory medals. His elder brother Edward George fell in action in March 1918.