Name
Ernest Robert Wilson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266223
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st/1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Bushey memorials(*1)
Pre War
Son of Mary Ann RANDALL (formerly WILSON, nee FOWLER) of Watford, and the late Ernest Robert WILSON.
His parents married 6 August 1892 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey, Herts. Ernest died 1913 in Watford aged 42, and was buried 18 March in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. Mary remarried 1918 in the Watford district to George RANDALL, she died in Watford aged 54, and was buried 10 October, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Ernest was born 8 January 1898 in Bushey, Herts, and baptised 2 March 1898 at St Mary’s, Watford. He attended Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 31 August to 7 October 1910, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, aged 14 he still lived in Watford, with his mother and seven siblings.
Wartime Service
He attested in the Territorial Force Hertfordshire Regiment at Hertford 2 December 1914, for four years: aged 18, C of E, as Private 4180. On 29 January 1915 he enlisted For the Duration.
He embarked from Folkstone 25 December 1916 arriving Calais the
Additional Information
Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War. Recorded on the St James' Memorial as 10th Battalion which did not exist. *1 Records found have recorded his birthplace as Bushey. This may be the case, however Bushey was the main postal location given for nearby villages and hamlets, so it may be that this information is misleading. If more accurate information found this will be updated.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
