Name
Ernest Edward Smith
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
11253
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 47.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial,
All Saints Church Memorial, Kings Langley
Pre War
Ernest Edward Smith was born in1893, in Brighton, Hove, Sussex, son of Amy Peacock and stepson of Alfred Peacock.
1901 Census records Ernest aged 8, living with his stepbrother Alfred Peacock 3, his mother and stepfather, in Waterside, Kings Langley, Herts.
No 1911 Census record was found for the family.
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted in Leeds, Yorkshire, posted to the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry with the service number 11253.
He arrived in France in May 1915, Ernest was Killed on 25 September of the same year aged 22, when a shell burst as he was about to leave his trench.
He has no known grave and is Commemorated on the Ypres (Mein Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
The value of his effects was £3-2s-4d, Pay Owing and £4, War Gratuity which went to Miss Edith Keene.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
