Declaring a member variable that takes a constructor parameter

 // In A.h
 class A
 {
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    enum eMyEnum{ eOne, eTwo, eThree };
  public:
    A(eMyEnum e);
 }

 // In B.h
 #include "A.h"
 class B
 {
    B();
    private:
       A memberA;
 }

 // In B.cpp
#include "B.h"
 B::B(void) : memberA(A::eOne)
 {}

The declaration to 'memberA' gives me a compile error using the g++ compiler: error: 'A::eOne' is not a type

How can I overcome this? Do I simply need to create a default constructor that takes no parameters?

It sounds like you are trying to initialise a member variable. You could do something like:

class B
{
public:
    B() : memberA(A::eOne) {}  // Initializer list in constructor
private:
    A memberA;
};

A constructor expects a eMyEnum. It is not clear why you would want B's constructor to not accept an eMyEnum parameter too. Anyway, assuming that your aim is to pass the argument to A's constructor as A::eOne (as opposed to A::eMyEnum::eOne), you could try the following code, which uses typedef.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class A {
public:
    typedef enum { eOne, eTwo, eThree } eMyEnum;
public:
    A(eMyEnum e) {
        cout << "A ctor" << endl;
    }
};

class B {
public:
    B() : memberA(A::eOne) {
        cout << "B ctor" << endl;
    }
private:
    A memberA;    

};

int main() {
    B b;
}

// output
A ctor
B ctor

However, notice that memberA's constructor is always called with the argument as A::eOne. You have not showed how this argument is used in the constructor, but I presume that in your real code it initialises a member of A. If the member must always have the same value, make it const and remove the parameter from the constructor.

class B
{
    public:
    B(A::eMyEnum someValue = A::eOne) : memberA(someValue) {};

    private:   
    A memberA;
}

eOne is not the type, eMyEnum is the type. What you're essentially saying is that "You must pass the literal 2 into this method" - it doesn't make any sense. If you don't mean to pass an enum into it, you'll have to clarify what you were going for.