Name
Ernest Mead
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/04/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
267693
Seaforth Highlanders
1st/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
II. C. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green,
All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green,
John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Croxley Mill, Croxley Green,
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
Oddfellows Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Ernest was born in Croxley on 15 September 1893, the second son of George and Fanny Mead of 179 New Road. George and Fanny had six children. Like his father, Ernest was a labourer at Croxley Mill. His brother, Edwin, was killed in 1918.
Officially recorded as born in Watford and enlisted in London, however Watford is more accurately described as Croxley Green.
Wartime Service
Previously 5337 before renumbering.
Lance Corporal Ernest Mead died of wounds on 11th April 1917, aged 23. He had probably been wounded on 9th April 1917 on the first day of the First Battle of the Scarpe 1917, part of the Arras offensive. At 5.30am on 9th April the battalion attacked three lines of German trenches east of Roclincourt.
He is buried in Aubigny communal cemetery extension, north west of Arras. The cemetery was used by a number of casualty clearing stations in the area.
Additional Information
Brother of Corporal Edwin Frederick Mead who died of wounds on 23 May 1918 and who is also commemorated on this memorial.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Brian Thomson, Croxley Green in the First World War, Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014
