Name
Ernest George Threadgold
30/01/1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/11/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Able Seaman
London Z/3760
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
188th Bde. Machine Gun Corps, R.N. Div.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY
VIII. B. 21.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Not on the Waltham Cross memorials
Pre War
Ernest George Threadgold was born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, on 30th January 1899, son of William Threadgold a Labourer at the Royal Gun Powder Factory, and Dina/Dinah Threadgold (nee Savill). One of six children although one died in infancy.
Baptised on 5th March 1899, at Holy Cross and St Lawrence, Waltham Abbey, Essex.
1901 Census records Ernest aged 2, living with his parents, brother William (12), sisters Ethal (11) and Ada (8) at 62 Queens Road, Waltham Cross/Cheshunt, Herts. The family have a boarder, Henry Cole.
1911 Census, Ernest (12), is at school, living with his parents, Brother William (22), sisters Ada (18) and May Victoria (9) still at, 62 Queens Road. They have a boarder Widower Thomas Saville (69), possible Dina’s father.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted on the 1st November 1915, in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Royal Naval Division, with the service number Z/3760, giving his date of birth as 30th January 1897, drafted as BEF Machine Gunner on 31st August 1916, posted to 188th Brigade MG Company on 15th August 1916.
He embarked aboard the SS. “Onward” at Folkstone on 1st September for Boulogne, France, arriving the same day. Seeing action on the Western Front, Ernest died just two months later on 15th November 1916, at the 9th Casualty Clearing Station, Contay, Somme, France, after receiving a Gun Shot Wound to his right thigh.
Additional Information
His mother Dinah received a dependents Pension of 6/- a week from 17th May 1917.
His Royal Naval Division record Cards survived and are available on-line.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
