Name
Ernest Bentley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/02/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
252120
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
3rd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUE-DU-BACQUEROT NO.1 MILITARY CEMETERY, LAVENTIE
II. K. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Walter/Walton and Mary (nee ALLEN) BENTLEY; husband of Nellie (nee GREEN) BENTLEY.
His parent’s marriage is proving elusive.
Ernest was born 1890 in either Cane End, Oxon, or Mapledurham, Oxon, and baptised 12 October 1890 at St Margaret’s, Mapledurham. He married 1914 in the Watford district, and resided in Watford. Nellie remarried 1917 in the Watford district to George H GLENISTER, and died 1975 in the Watford district aged 87.
On the 1891 Census, aged 9 months he lived in Caversham, Oxon, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 10 he lived in Bradfield, Berks, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, an assistant baker aged 20, he lived in Watford.
Recorded as living in Watford when he enlisted in Little Pulteney Street.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Little Poultney Street; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Unfortunately, Ernest’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
