Name
Ernest Edward Watts
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/07/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
3/8246
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XVI. K. 12.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Great Amwell Village Memorial,
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Great Amwell,
Not on the Hoddesdon memorials
Pre War
Born in 1879 in Great Waltham, Essex son of Joseph and Hannah Beatrice (Burton) Watts and was living there in 1881, 1891 and 1901.
He married Emily Florence Gilbert on 2 Aug 1903 at Great Amwell, Herts. and they lived in Wimbledon, Surrey then at 19 Argyle Road, West Hendon, Middx. in 1911 and later at 10 Nursery Rd., Hoddesdon, Herts. and had two sons.
Enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Ernest entered France on 30 Aug 1915 and died of wounds probably in hospital in Lijssenthoek. The wounds were received in the frontline trenches at Zillebeke near Ypres, Belgium.
Lijssenthoek was a village near Poperinge where there was a concentration of Casualty Clearing Stations.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
