Name
ERNEST GEORGE SIMMONDS
1877
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235075
South Staffordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 90 to 92 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium, to the fallen.
UK & Other Memorials
Chipperfield Village Memorial, St Paul's Church Memorial, Chipperfield.
Pre War
Ernest George Simmonds was born in 1877, in
Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, son of George Simmonds, an Agricultural Worker and
Jane (nee Baldwin/Redding) Simmonds. He was Baptised on 1 July 1877, in the
Parish of Chipperfield, Herts.
1881 Census records Ernest aged 3, Living with
his parents, sister Louisa (8), brother Herbert (6), Half-sister Annie Redding (18)
and half-brother James Redding (11), in Sarratt (Belsize Green), Herts.
1891 Census records Ernest aged 13, working as a
Farm Labourer, living at home with his parents, and brother Herbert also a Farm
Labourer, at Moles Croft Cottage, Flaunden, Herts.
1901 Census, Ernest is still single, living at home with his parents in, Flaunden, Herts. Working as a Carter on Farm.
1911 Census records Ernest, single, living at home with
his widowed mother, in, Tower Hill, Chipperfield, Herts. Still working as a
Carter on Farm.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted at Watford, Herts, posted to the Royal
Field Artillery with the service number 163173, later transferred to the South
Staffordshire Regiment with the service number 235075.
He was killed in action on 4 October 1917, aged
40, he has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial,
Zonnebeke, Belgium, to the fallen.
Additional Information
His mother Jane Simmonds of 6, Tower Hill, Chipperfield, Herts, received a Dependents Pension of 8/- a week for life from 21 May 1918. She died in June 1923, aged 84. His effects of £4-2s-1d, Pay Owing and £4, War Gratuity were split equally between his mother Jane and brother Herbert. Ernest was a Deacon and Sunday School Teacher at Chipperfield Baptist Church from 1907. He is recorded as George Ernest Simmonds on the SDITGW, CWGC, Pension records and his Medal Card. Chipperfield Village Memorials record him as Ernest George Simmonds, as do all Civil records.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
