Name
Ernest Edward Harris
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/07/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
241980
Border Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
A.6
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Weston, Not on the Stevenage Old Town memorials
Pre War
Born in 1886 to Elthea Jane Harris. Baptised at Weston 29 November 1886. Elthea was the daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann Harris who lived at Leatherwells, Halls Green, Weston.
Ernest was the illegitimate son of Elthea Harris who later married Charles Waldock. Ernest was living with his grandparents on the 1891, 1901 and 1911 Censuses but variously described as nephew, grandson (which he actually was) and stepson. In 1911 he was working as a plough boy on a farm.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hitchin, Herts. Formerly 6351 in the Essex Regiment.
On the Army Register of Soldiers' Effects, he is described as having died as a Prisoner of War.
Additional Information
Formerly 6351, Essex Regt. War gratuity of £5 awarded to sister Florence Waldock. One of their sons, Frank Waldock is also named on the Weston memorial.
Acknowledgments
Peter Handy, Brenda Palmer
