Name
Egbert Wilson Mackereth
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/04/1918
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
57395
Worcestershire Regiment
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 75 to 77.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Rickmansworth memorials
Pre War
Born in 1885 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire son of George Edwin Mackereth later of "Langdale," Ebury Road, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. He worked as an assistant clerk in the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway from 23 Jul 1900. He married Jeanie Elizabeth Walker on 28 Sep 1912 in the Independent Chapel, Droylsden, Lancashire and they lived at 7 Healey Terrace, Fairfield, Manchester.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Ashton-under-Lyne formerly Private 31320, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and was killed in action near Ypres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
