BORN HULL 1890. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM FILBY (1864-1957) & PRISCILLA PICKERING (1866-1946). ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN, LIVING AT 72 ROSMEAD STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER.
ERNEST’S FIRST JOB, AGED 16, WAS FOR G. ELVIN & CO, PRINTERS AND STATIONERS. HE LATER WORKED AS A LABOURER FITTER AT EARLES SHIP YARD.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL AND JOINED THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, AS A DRIVER, ON 13/07/1917.
HE DIED OF WOUNDS ON 13/07/1917, AGED 27. HE IS BURIED IN BELGIUM. (Medals Awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal Regiment or Corps Royal Artillery (Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery) Regimental Number L/15775 Sub Unit Royal Field Artillery Previous Units R.F.A. L/15775 Dvr)
ERNEST WAS UNMARRIED AND HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT JOINTLY TO HIS PARENTS.
HIS BROTHERS, GEORGE WILLIAM FILBY (LABOUR CORPS) AND WILFRED FILBY (NAVY) ALSO SERVED .
The full address for Ernest Filby’s grave is Adinkerke, Arrondissement Veurne, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium. His brother George William Filby (1892 to 1964) served in the Labour Corps and his brother Wilfred Filby (1896 to 1971) served in the Navy.
Many Thanks to “Neill Potts” – neill@neilluk.karoo.co.uk – for all the photographs of Private, Ernest Filby sent on 07/01/2017. They show Ernest in his Royal Field Artillery uniform: his employment around the age of 16: a photo when he was aged approx 21: and believed to be his last letter home before been deployed to Flanders and France. The family photo, taken around 1914 or earlier includes: Back row left to right. Francis Filby (Royal Field Artillery), Ernest Filby (Royal Horse Artillery) & George William Filby (Labour Corps).
Centre row left to right. Wilfred Filby (Royal Navy), Annie May Filby, Priscilla Filby (nee Pickering) holding baby Stanley Filby & William Filby. Front row. Frederick Rupert Filby.
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