Name
Ernest George Aldridge
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/6755
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 41.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Buntingford Town Memorial, Not on the Sandon memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Layston
Pre War
Recorded as born in Layston and living in Sandon when he enlisted in Aspenden. Ernest was born in the parish of Layston to William and Eliza Aldridge. In the 1911 census he was shown as living at the George Hotel in High Street Buntingford. His occupation was listed as a groom.
Ernest was born in the parish of Layston to William and Eliza Aldridge. In the 1911 census he was shown as living at the George Hotel in High Street Buntingford. His occupation was listed as a groom.
Wartime Service
Killed in action in France.
Additional Information
His effects, which was his pay, was given to his sole survivor, his sister
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
