Private Ernest Meredith, 69422
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- Unit - Royal Defence Corps
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- Date of Birth - 1887
- Died - 29/04/1919
- Age - 32
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. Before the war Ernest had been an Ironstone Mine Tapper. He was wounded in France in 1915, and underwent three operations never fully recovering, he was eventually discharged from the Army in February 1918. He died at his sisters home in Eaton, Leicestershire from a lumbar abscess and tuberculosis.
Leicestershire Project Findings
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - St Denys Churchyard, Eaton
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
- Unit - Royal Defence Corps
- Former Unit n.o - 16767
- Former Unit - 9th Bn. Leicestershire Regt.
- Cause of death - DIED
- Burial Commemoration - Eaton Chyrd, Leics., England, Grave Reference: Plot 153 (unmarked)
- Born - Swinstead, Corby Glen, Lincolnshire
- Memorial - ST. DENY'S CHURCH, EATON, LEICS
- Memorial - EATON SCHOOL MEM., LEICS
- Memorial - VILLAGE HALL MEMORIAL, EATON, LEICESTERSHIRE
