BORN CARLTON, NOTTS, 24/02/1889. SON OF GEORGE MORRIS (1866-1949) & EMMA MORRIS (1865-1947), NOTTINGHAM. A BRICKLAYERS LABOURER. HE MARRIED LAURA MAY RUDD (1893-1940), AT HUNSLET, YORKSHIRE, IN 1912. HIS WIFE LAURA, LIVED IN SKIDBY. ENLISTED LEEDS. SERVED AS ACTING SERGEANT, WITH THE 9TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/11/1918, AGED 29. BURIED IN FRANCE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, LAURA MAY, IN SKIDBY.
HIS NAME WAS NOT INCLUDED ON THE SKIDBY WAR MEMORIAL.
First name:
ERNEST
Military Number:
40299
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
04/11/1918
Place died:
Valenciennes (St. Roch) Communal Cemetery, Nord, France
Age:
29
