BORN EASINGTON 1897. ORIGINAL HULL PAL. SON OF WALTER & KATE LOUISA BIGLIN, WINSETTE HOUSE, SKEFFLING, HULL.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. CPL ERNEST ANGELO BIGLIN 13/1419. Born in October 1897 in Easington, East Yorkshire Ernest was the eldest of eight children to Walter and Kate Biglin of Winsette House, Skeffling, Hull. A Farm Worker by trade he enlisted at Hull City Hall in early 1915 joining the 13th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, “T’Others”, 4th Hull Pals. His age was at best suspect, at worst an outright lie. Nevertheless his secret remained undiscovered and Ernest served in Egypt and then on the Somme and at Oppy Wood before transferring to the 11th when the two battalions merged in February 1918. He was mortally wounded on the Armentieres front during the darkest hours of the German Spring Offensive and died of those wounds on 14th April 1918. Ernest Biglin is one of only ten First World War soldiers buried at Borre Churchyard, he was 21 years old. His grave inscription, reads, “HE SLEEPS WITH ENGLAND’S HEROES IN THE WATCHFUL CARE OF GOD”
