Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Joseph Amos a Harness Manufacturer, born 1859 in Whitwick, Leicestershire and his wife Emma, born 1855 in Billington, Lincolnshire. Ernest was born in 1892 in Coalville, Leicestershire, his siblings were William J., born 1880, Frances Louisa, born 1886 and Evelyn Emma, born 1895, in 1901 the family home was at 71, High Street, Coalville, Leicestershire. In 1911 Ernest was employed as a Butchers Assistant and was residing with his brother in law, James Henry Finch a Wagon Rivetter, born 1883 in Coalville, Leicestershire and his married sister Frances Louisa Finch and his sister Evelyn Emma, the family home was at High Street, Coalville, Leicestershire.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday January 11th, 1918

LOCAL CASUALTIES

Pte. Ernest Amos, stretcher-bearer in the Warwickshire Regiment, aged 27, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Amos, of High Street, Coalville, is officially reported to have been killed in action in France on the 3rd December, twelve days after returning to the Front from leave. He had been at the Front for thirteen months. Before joining up he was in the employ of the Nuneaton Co-Operative Society, before which he worked at Whitwick. Information received is that he was killed whilst attending a wounded officer on the battlefield. His widow, residing at Nuneaton, is left with an infant just under two years old. The young soldier was presented with a parchment certificate for acts of gallantry during September last near Wieltje, the document stating that during an attack on Hill 35, he showed untiring energy and devotion to duty, working almost continuously for 36 hours, attending to his wounded comrades, and carrying several wounded men alone under heavy fire. Deceased was well-known in Coalville, where a brother and two sisters reside.

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby. 6/1/2018