BORN HULL 09/09/1883. SON OF JAMES & JANE LEE, OF 230 NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS.
HE MARRIED IN 1916. HIS WIFE ALICE C. WAINWRIGHT, LIVED 8, CLINTON AVENUE, MANVERS STREET, HULL.
BEFORE THE WAR WORKED AS A STOCK KEEPER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1ST EYR. KILLED IN ACTION, 09/04/1917, AGED 32. BURIED AT WANCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HE LEFT £150 TO HIS WIDOW ALICE. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HOLY TRINITY METHODIST ROLL OF HONOUR.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, FREDERICK LEE, 8TH LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 14/07/1916, AGED 26 AND IS COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
First name:
ERNEST DENNIS
Regiment:
Military Number:
23957
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/04/1917
Place died:
Wancourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
32
8 CLINTON AVENUE, MANVERS STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
