Name
Ernest Hutchinson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/04/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3051
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. A. 56.
France
UK & Other Memorials
St John’s Church, High Cross
Thundridge War Memorial
Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Born in 1893. Lived in Ware, Herts. and at 37 Nelson Street, Heanor, Derbyshire.
Enlisted at Ilkeston, Derbyshire on 26th October 1914 aged 21 years.
Husband of Florence Hutchinson.
Wartime Service
Enlisted 26th October 1914, in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, aged 21 years, into the 5th Reserve Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire) Regiment. His connection to Thundridge and High Cross has not been established. He was stationed in the UK from the 26th October 1914 to 3rd March 1916. Embarked for France from Southampton on the 3rd March 1916. Disembarked Rouen, France, 4th March 1916. Joined Unit in the field 6th March 1916.
Wounded in action in the field 25th March 1916. Died of wounds in 30th Casualty Clearing Station, France on the 22nd April 1916.
Additional Information
He left a wife and two children. His widow was awarded a pension of 18 shillings and 6 pence (18/6) a week for her and the two children.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Maurice Charge, Stuart Osborne, Pat Bird
