Name
Ernest Wilton Blake Marshall
1875
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
S/2936
Rifle Brigade
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL
Panel 10
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Codicote memorials
Pre War
Ernest Wilton Blake Marshall was born in 1875 at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, the son and eldest child of William and Eliza Marshall. He had two sisters, Louise and (Ethel) Marion and a brother (William) George.
On the 1891 Census the family were living in Brading on the Isle of Wight, where his father was working as a Painter. By 1901 they had moved to 253 Victoria Park Road, Hackney, at which time Ernest was working as an Office Boy.
On the 1911 Census the family had moved to 40 Lauriston Road, South Hackney and Ernest was working as a Warehouse Clerk. He gave his occupation as Clerk on enlistment.
He married Violet Arnold on 16 January 1915 in Hackney. After his death she lived at Cromer Hyde, Harmer Green, Welwyn according to pension records.
His parents later lived at 149 Cassland Road, South Hackney, London,
Wartime Service
Ernest enlisted in London on 9 September 1914. (Although Winchester is also noted on his records).
He was appointed Lance Corporal on 10 October 1914 and promoted to Corporal on 29 March 1915. He was hospitalised at the City of London Military Hospital from 10 to 17 May 1915 with furunculosis (multiple boils on the skin).
He went to France on 21 July 1915 and was confirmed in the rank of Acting Sergeant in the field on 17 August 1915.
Ernest was killed in action, being presumed dead on or after 25 September 1915. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £4 10s and pay owing of £3 8s. She also received a pension of 10 shillings a week from 5 Jun 1916. (She later remarried to Fred Kitteridge in 1917, received a remarriage gratuity of £39 6s 7d and lived at 1 Heath Lane, Codicote).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer
