BORN HULL 05/07/1887. SON OF JOHN THOMAS GLENTWORTH (1863-1909) & MABEL JANE NEWTON (1862-1922). HE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. (HDM 12/05/1919). A FORMER FIREMAN, FOR THE WILSON SHIPPING LINE. Married to Lily Wintersgull at 4 Marlbrough Terrace, Westbourne Street, Hull (1911 Census).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS REPORTED MISSING AND THEN KILLED, ON 12/05/1917, AGED 29.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HE LEFT A WIDOW AND THREE CHILDREN. HE WAS REPORTED MISSING WITH HIS BROTHER, JOSEPH NEWTON GLENTWORTH, 20TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, KILLED ON 05/06/1917, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 18/03/1918. THEIR MOTHER HAD LOST HER ONLY SONS IN THE WAR WITHIN A FORTNIGHT.
First name:
ERNEST
Regiment:
Military Number:
201563
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/05/1917
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
29
