Name
Ernest Alfred Sandford
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2191
East Surrey Regiment
7th Bn.
"A" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 65 to 67.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Ernest Alfred Sandford was born in 1894 in Elsenham, Essex to John and Eliza Sandford and baptised there in 1894. (N.B. the birth is registered in the Bishop's Stortford district). The family were living in Windhill, Bishop's Stortford on both the 1901 and 1911 Censuses. Ernest was working as a domestic gardener in 1911.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Kingston, Surrey into the new 7th (Service) Battalion, as did his older brother Walter. He served in France from 1 June 1915 with the East Surrey Regiment. Death was presumed on or since on 13 October 1915 during the Battle of Loos (against the Hohenzollern Redoubt).
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £ 4 and pay owing of £3 5s 8d. Brother to Walter James Sandford, Reg. No. 6, Sergeant in the East Surrey Regiment, also serving with A Company, 7th Btn, who was presumed dead on 13 October 1915 (the same day as his brother) and who is also commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
