Name
Ernest Frank Appleby
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/04/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19215
Grenadier Guards
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
VI. B. 5A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted or Northchurch memorials, Little Rissington WW1 Memorial, St Peter's Church, Little Rissington, Gloucs
Pre War
Ernest Frank Appleby was born in 1893 in Northchurch, nr. Berkhamsted, Herts, the son of William and Sarah Appleby and one of five children. He was baptised on 6 August 1893 in Berkhamsted.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Northchurch, Herts where his father was working as a gardener (domestic).
By 1911 Ernest had moved to Gloucestershire and was a boarder at the home of George and Mary Rogers in Bourton on the Water, where he was working as an Under Gamekeeper. His parents and younger sister Edith had also moved to Gloucestershire and were living at Little Rissington.
His parents later lived at Guildenford, Burford, Oxon on CWGC records and 6 Park Street, Berkhamsted, Herts on pension records.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted in Camberley, Surrey and joined the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, serving in France from 1 May 1915.
He died of wounds received in action on 12 April 1916, aged 22, and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £6 10s and pay owing of £2 8s 11d. pension records exist but give no indication of the amount of pension received.
The Register of Soldiers Effects lists Ernest as being in the 4th Bn but also in smaller writing indicates 'or 2nd'.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
