Name
Ernest Charles. Camp
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/03/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
GS/68860
Royal Fusiliers *1
24th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUCHONVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
II. A. 18.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Sawbridgeworth Town Memorial, Great St Mary’s Church Memorial, Sawbridgeworth
Pre War
Ernest was born on the 24th June 1898, in Sawbridgeworth, Herts., the only child of Charles Edwin Camp, an ironmongers assistant, and Emily Jane Camp. He was baptised on the 7th August 1898 in Sawbridgeworth, Herts.
The census information records that in 1901 Ernest was 2 and the family was living in Barkers Lane, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. By 1911 they had moved to 60 Station Road, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. Ernest enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
He served in France from the 4th October 1917 to the 26th March 1918, with the West Kent Yeomanry, service No 254754, before joining the Royal Fusiliers. (2nd Sportsman’s Battalion).
He was Killed in Action on the 26th March 1918.
Additional Information
His Headstone reads: “The souls of the Righteous are in the hands of God” as requested by his mother. The CWGC records confirm his parents and give their address as 60 Station Road, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. around the time of his death.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
