BORN HULL 1886. SON OF TOM & ELLEN (WALKER) SHANKS, 44 LEONARD STREET. A WAREHOUSE LABOURER FOR THE IDEAL STANDARD RADIATOR COMPANY.
HE ENLISTED HULL. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 07/11/1918, AGED 33. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS MOTHER, ELLEN. THIS WAS HIS 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. HE LEFT BROTHER, WILLIAM AND SISTER MARY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION READS, “HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE”
BURIED: Awoingt British Cemetery, Awoingt, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
HIS NAME IS LISTED WITH 46 EMPLOYEES, ON HULL’S IDEAL BOLIER AND RADIATOR COMPANY MEMORIAL, NATIONAL AVENUE, HULL.
First name:
ERNEST
Military Number:
755436
Rank:
Gunner
Date Died
07/11/1918
Place died:
Awoingt British Cemetery, Awoingt, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Age:
33
38 , MORPETH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
