Name
Ernest Andrew Bone
21/12/1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/11/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/22498
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ABINGER (ST. JAMES) CHURCHYARD
North of Church.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
BELOVED HUSBAND OF FLORENCE BONE GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood, Abinger Village, Surrey, Memorials
Pre War
Ernest Andrew Bone was born on 21 December 1886, in Mapledurwell, Hampshire, son of Henry Bone, a Farm Worker and Mary Elizabeth (nee Garey) Bone. He was one of seven children and was baptised on 27 February 1887, in the Parish Church, Mapledurwell, Hampshire
1891 Census records Ernest aged 4, living with his parents, brothers James (6), William (5), and sister Gertrude (2) in, Andwell, Hampshire. His Grandfather George Garey (81) was living with the family.
1901 Census records the family now living in Abinger Hammer, Surrey. Ernest was aged 14 and working as a “House Boy”. His father Henry died in 1910, aged 52.
1911 Census records Ernest aged 24, working as a Builders Labourer, living with his widowed mother, brother Charles, sisters Edith and Annie at 9, The Dene, Abinger Hammer, Surrey.
Ernest married Florence Durrant on 5 August 1916, at St James Church, Abinger, Surrey. Both their father’s Henry Bone and Stephen Durrant were recorded as deceased on the marriage certificate. They went on to have one daughter Nellie Florence Edith Bone, born in June 1917, in Petworth, Sussex.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted at Shere, Surrey. Posted to “The Queens” (Royal West Surrey Regiment) with the service number 22498.
He died on 11 December 1918, at Fort Pitt Military Hospital, Chatham, Kent, of Influenza and Pneumonia. He is buried in St. James Churchyard, Abinger, Surrey.
Additional Information
Florence received a widow’s pension of 20/5 a week from 26 May 1919, his effects of £16-11s-11d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £14-10s-00d. The Pension record card gives her address as 10, Drayton Road, Boreham Wood, Herts. CWGC record her address as 16, Glenhaven Avenue, Boreham Wood, Herts. She ordered his headstone inscription: "BELOVED HUSBAND OF FLORENCE BONE GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN". We found no records to indicate Ernest lived in Borehamwood, Herts, we believe Florence moved to Borehamwood after his death.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Taff Williams
