^Olson and Cloud (2010) remark on his being named after Cedric Errol, Lord Fauntleroy, boy protagonist of the highly successful children's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy published in 1885/6.
Lynne Olson, Stanley Cloud, For Your Freedom and Ours, Random House, 2010,
29f.
"At a little sidewalk café in Paris, he [
Merian C. Cooper ] recruited his first volunteer, a tall, lean army major from Mississippi with the improbable name of Cedric Errol Fauntleroy. A friend of Cooper's, Fauntleroy had flown in France with Eddie Rickenbacker's famous "Hat in the Ring" squadron. He had grown up on a small plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where his incorrigibly romantic mother had given him the first and middle names of the golden-haired protagonist of Little Lord Fauntleroy
and read him poems by Byron and others celebrating the heroics of
Tadeusz Kościuszko."
His middle name is occasionally reported as Erald.
^citation in: personnel records of the Polish army (Dziennik Personalny), Ministry of Military Affairs, published 30 April 1921 (appeared periodically as an appendix to Polska Zbrojna), Nr 21, item 844.