Name
Ernest Edward Milton
6/08/1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1917
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
11074
Royal Fusiliers *1
32nd (County of London)(Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
BB. 15.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, St Clements Church Memorial Turnford, Rochford Nurseries Memorial, Not on the Ware Memorials
Pre War
Ernest Edward Milton was born in Ware, Hertfordshire, on 6th August 1881, son of Alfred Milton a, Agricultural Worker and Elizabeth (Warren) Milton. One of ten children although one died in infancy.
1891 Census records Ernest aged 9, at school, living with his parents, four brothers and two sisters in, Village Street, Stapleford, Herts.
1901 Census, Ernest (20) is recorded as a Boarder with Samual and Susan Bowman at, 6 Macer Lane, Worley, Herts. He is employed as a Market Gardener.
Ernest married Rachael Ann Abbey the daughter of James and Emma Abbey, in St Andrews Church, Hertford, on 1st June 1903. They went on to have three son’s Albert Alfred born 1904, Ernest Edward born 1908 and Frederick Richard born 1915.
1911 Census records Ernest, married to Rachel, they have two son’s Albert (7) and Ernest (2), living at 4 Nursery Road, Turnford, Herts. He is employed as a Nurse hand.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the 32nd (Service) Battalion, (East Ham), Royal Fusiliers, (City of London Regiment), and issued with the service number PS/11074.
On completion of his training, he was sent to the Western Front.
He was killed in Action on 24th April 1917, aged 36. He is buried in the Dickebusch new Military Cemetery in Belgium.
Additional Information
Rachal received a widow’s pension of 26/3, a week from 19th November 1917, and his effects of £2-9-7, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)(Service) Bn London Regiment (East Ham).
Their youngest son Frederick Richard Milton was killed in Action in WW 2. He was a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy aboard HMS “Fleur-de-Lys” (K122) a Flower Class Corvette, when she was torpedoed by the German U-Boat U-206, under the Command of Kapitanleutnant Herbert Opitz, 45 miles West of Gibraltar on 14th October 1941. HMS “Fleur-de-Lys” had a crew of 73, only 3 survived the attack.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox
