Name
Ernest Kerr Molesworth
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/12/1914
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
Royal Engineers
Attached 2nd Bn. Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. HILAIRE-COTTES CHURCHYARD
In South part.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hoddesdon memorials
Pre War
Born on 28 Mar 1878 in Montrose, son of Lieut.-Col. Anthony Oliver and Ann Elizabeth (Smith) Molesworth of Cruxfield, Alms, Berwickshire. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He married Hilda Rosalie Brownlow on 31 May 1905 in London and they lived at South Lodge, Hoddesdon with two children.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant R.E. on 23 Mar 1898 and Lieutenant on 14 Feb 1901. He took part in the Tibet expedition 1903-04. He was promoted Captain on 23 Mar 1907 and attached to the 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners based in Bangalore becoming Company Commander in Apr 1911. He entered France on 16 Oct 1914 with the Indian Expeditionary Force, was promoted Major on 30 Oct 1914 and then was accidentally shot at St Hilaire.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
