Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the husband of Rosetta Poyser.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday May 5th, 1916

COALVILLE SOLDIER ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

Mrs Poyser, of Claremont Villas, Highfields, Coalville, has been officially notified that her husband, Driver Ernest Poyser, of the North Midland Mounted Brigade, Army Service Corps, was accidentally killed on April 15th. No further details are given. The official letter is accompanied by one from Lord Kitchener expressing the sympathy of the King and Queen.

Driver E. Poyser was in Egypt at the time, and was acting as officer’s servant. He was 27 years of age, and before the war worked at the Ibstock Colliery. Seven months ago, when in training at Norwich, he obtained short leave, and came to Coalville to marry, before going abroad. Miss Rose Palmer, (daughter of Mr B. Palmer, of the above address), for whom much loyal sympathy in her early widowhood will be felt.

Coalville Times article - Friday May 12th, 1916

COALVILLE SOLDIER’S DEATH

DUE TO AN ACCIDENT

Mrs Poyser, of Claremont Villas, Highfields, Coalville, has received news unofficially as to how her husband, Driver Ernest Poyser, of the North Midland Mounted Brigade, Army Service Corps, met with his death in Egypt, as officially reported last week. The War Office notice stated that the deceased soldier was accidentally killed and Mrs Poyser is now informed that it was due to a revolver going off whilst being cleaned by a companion. Poyser being shot through the head. He was formerly employed at the Ibstock Colliery, and had only been married seven months.

Coalville Times article - Friday April 13th, 1917

IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of Driver Ernest Poyser, accidentally killed in Egypt, April 18th, 1916.

“There’s a grave by Eastern waters,
Where the painful sunbeams shine,
And there, in loneliness they laid
That dear husband of mine:
And in the pride of strength, of youth,
With all his promise bright,
As if the splendid morning sun
Was quenched in sudden night.”

From his loving wife.

Coalville Times article - Friday May 4th, 1917

Driver Reginald Poyser, Machine Gun Corps, son of Mrs Poyser, widow of the late Mr Wm. Poyser, the Calais, Ashby, was killed in action on the 12th April. An officer in the corps, writing to the deceased’s soldier’s widow (who is living with her father, Mr Arnold Wright, Station Terrace, Swannington), said that Driver Poyser was devoted to his duties and was respected by his comrades. The widow, who was married at St. George’s Church, Swannington, only six months ago, is a school teacher at Ashby. Before enlisting Private Poyser conducted a horse-slaughtering business at Ashby, succeeding his father, who carried it on for several years. Deceased’s brother, Charles, served in an artillery regiment, but met with an accident during training in England, and is now disabled.

Research undertaken and submitted (including photograph from Coalville Times) by Andy Murby 13/10/2017