BORN HULL 1890, SON OF ERNEST GEORGE & KATE EMILY RYMER, OF 56 PARK ROAD, HULL AND THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SERVED WITH THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS. TRANSFERRED TO “B” SPECIAL COMPANY, RE’S. HE DIED ON 05/08/1917, AGED 28.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE ROLL OF HONOUR. ALSO REMEMBERED ON THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEER’S MEMORIAL AT HULL MINSTER.
HE IS BURIED AT FOSSE NO.10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SAINS-EN-GOHELLE, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “A MAN’S GOOD NAME IS HIS BEST MONUMENT”.
HIS BROTHER DONOVAN, ROYAL ENGINEERS, LIVED AT 234 , BOULEVARD, HULL. (1918 MILITARY VOTERS ADDRESS).
First name:
ALFRED ERNEST
Regiment:
Military Number:
146364
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
05/08/1917
Place died:
FOSSE NO.10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SAINS-EN-GOHELLE, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE
Age:
28
234 , BOULEVARD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
