Name
Ernest Charles Hankin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/04/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
53037
Royal Garrison Artillery
81st Siege Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY, FICHEUX
Henin-sur-Cojeul German Cemetery, Mem. 18.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Baptist Church Lychgate, Widford, Not on the Standon memorials
Pre War
Ernest was the son of Charles and Fanny Manion, and Fanny was living at Nether St Widford when he was killed. He was born in Standon in 1896 and was living in Puckeridge in1901 with his grandparents and his mother. His father appears to be absent at the time of the census.
In 1911 Ernest was living with his mother in Widford and was working as a domestic gardener. His father died in 1916.
Wartime Service
Enlisted as a volunteer in November 1914 (said in some army records to be at Exeter but we think this an error, as he gave a Widford address at attestation).
He landed in France March 1915. He was killed 22nd April 1917 and initially buried in the German cemetery at Henin sur Cojeul along with 28 other soldiers but later reburied at Ficheux.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Pat Bird
