Name
Ernest Charles Allnatt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1918
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/26789
King's Royal Rifle Corps
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
S. II. E. 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bengeo memorials
Pre War
Born on 18th May 1885, in Hackney, to parents John James and Emma Jane, they were living at 51 Fanshaw Street, Shoreditch when he was baptised on 12 June 1885, his father was employed as a plumber. In 1891 he was living in Islington with his widowed mother, who was a laundress, with sisters Florence and Emma and brothers Walter and James. In 1901 he was living at 121 Shepperton Road, Islington, with an Aunt and Uncle along with his siblings. By 1911 Ernest had married Ada and was living at 137 Richmond Road, Hackney, with their daughter, Winifred Marion, he was employed as a commercial traveller. At the time of his death his wife was living at 98 Duncombe Road, Bengeo.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted at Holloway, posted to 2nd Battalion, part of Kitchener’s New Army, this unit fought on the Western Front in both France and Belgium, at Loos in 1915, at the Somme in 1916 and in 1917 at 3rd Ypres. Ernest was wounded during the battle for St Quentin Canal in late September 1918. He died in British No.3 Stationary Hospital at Rouen.
Acknowledgments
Terry & Glenis Collins
