Name
Ernest Mardle
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/02/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/15596
Royal Sussex Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CROIX-DU-BAC BRITISH CEMETERY, STEENWERCK
I. D. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield In Memoriam Book, Lemsford Village Memorial, We are not aware of any Cromer Hyde memorial
Pre War
Ernest was the son of George Henry and Elizabeth Mardle, of Cromer Hyde, Hatfield Herts., born circa 1888.
In the 1891 Census Ernest was recorded as age 3, with twin brother Charles, and living at Cromer Hyde. His father was working as an agricultural labourer. By the family were living with his parents and siblings in a Cottage at Cromer Hyde. His father now working as a cowman. Still in Cromer Hyde in 1911, Ernest was working as farm labourer.
Officially recorded as born in Hatfield and enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Ernest first joined the Hertfordshire Regiment with service number 4181, which was issued post 4th November and 13th December 1914. He probably did not go overseas until after the end of 1915 and at some point was transferred to the Royal Sussex Regiment, 7th Battalion, with the service number G/15596.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of March 1917, recorded: “Private E. Mardle........ Has gone abroad again.”
The Herts Advertiser dated 9th March 1918, reported: “Private Ernest Mardle. - Cromer Hyde soldier killed in France.
Private Ernest Mardle, aged 29, Sussex Regt., single, who was killed in France on February 1st. A twin son of Mr and Mrs George Mardle, Cromer Hyde, near Hatfield, and brother of Mr Harry Mardle, Alexandra Road, St. Albans
He joined the army in October 1914, had been in France for over two years and had been twice wounded. His last leave was towards the close of last year and he returned to France on Christmas Day. He was formerly a farm labourer at Water End near Wheathampstead. His younger brother, Bombardier Frank Mardle, Herts. Artillery, was killed in June 1916.
Captain Campbell in a letter to the relatives states that Private Mardle was killed instantaneously while he was doing his duty like a good soldier. “I can only state” the writer adds “how much I sympathise with you in your loss and say that both the officers and men feel the same. It may comfort you a little to think that no many can give his life better than your son did and I am certain he gave it willingly in the service of his country”.”
Awarded the British War Medal & Victory Medal.
Additional Information
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mrs Mardle (Mother) of Cromer Hyde received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album”.
Brother of Frank Mardle who was also killed.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
