Name
Ernest W Blunt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/11/1915
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
94999
Royal Engineers
11th Signal Company.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY
D. VII. 2.
Malta
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town War Memorial
Pre War
Ernest was the husband of Rachel Mary Blunt, of "Westbrook," Royston, Hertfordshire. He had worked for the Post Office as a Sorting Clerk since 1899.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in April 1915 and was posted to the Dardanelles on the 21st August of that year. He suffered a bout of Dysentery in October 1915 and was eventually evacuated to Malta suffering from Typhoid Fever. He died in the Military Hospital in Malta and is buried in the Pieta Military Cemetery.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
