Name
Ernest Lines
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/08/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33651
East Surrey Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 34.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Christchurch Plaque, now in Holy Trinity Church, Bengeo, Essendon War Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Essendon
Pre War
Born in 1884, in Bengeo, Hertford to parents George and Harriet. Baptised on the 24th October 1884, in Bengeo, Herts. He attended Bengeo Christ Church National School. He had one sister Annie and two brothers Frederick and Frank.
The 1891 census shows Ernest aged 6 years living with his Parents, 2 Brothers and Sister in Wellington Street, Bengeo, Hertford, Herts. In 1901 aged 16 years living with his parents, 2 Brothers and Sister at 28 Wellington Street, Hertford, Herts. His occupation is a Carpenter, his father was employed as an engine driver whilst Ernest was a carpenter.
He married Adelaide Beatrice West on 30th May 1906 in Camden Town and the 1911 census records them living at 95 Wellington Street, Hertford with two daughters Rose Harriet and Amy Kathleen. Ernest was the recorded as a carpenter & joiner.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford and his unit sent to France on 1st September 1915 and they fought in the first Somme campaign and then in 1917 at Arras, the Scarpe and 3rd Ypres.
On 3rd August they were in the front lines trenches at Zillebeck when they came under heavy enemy artillery fire, during this period Ernest was killed in action and his body not recovered.
Additional Information
Ernest is also commemorated on the family headstone in Bengeo (Holy Trinity) Churchyard, his part of the inscription reads:
". . . ALSO PTE ERNEST LINES KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES AUGUST 4TH(*1) SEP 1917. AGED 33"
*1 may be a transcription error
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Terry & Glenis Collins, Sue and Colin Rees, Stuart Osborne
