Graphic Online BY: Enoch Darfah Frimpong The 86-year-old Lt Gen is survived by a wife and eight children. Family sources confirmed the death of the man who was the first commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 1978 to 1981. He was also a former Chief of Army Staff of the Ghana Army and commanded the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon He had his training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and also attended the Staff College, Camberley in England. Lt. Gen. Erskine was one of the founding members of the People's Heritage Party (PHP).