Name
Ernest Thake
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/05/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2880
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY
III. R. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Much Hadham Village Memorial, St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Much Hadham, Stone Bench Plaque, Much Hadham, Congregational Church Memorial, Hadham Cross, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1897 in Windmill Cottage, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire son of Charles and Ellen Thake.
In 1901 he was living at Windmill Cottage in Much Hadham, later moving to Norman Cottage, Much Hadham. In 1911 he was living in Hadham Cross and working as a garden boy.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Bishop’s Stortford, entered France on 10 Jul 1915 and was killed in action in the front line at Givenchy on the Somme.
Hertfordshire War Diary Extract: 10th May 1916 - Sgt. Gregory awarded military medal for gallantry for carrying two wounded men to a place of safety during a hostile artillery barrage of fire following explosion of a mine. Two men from the Herts Regiment were reported killed on the 10th and later buried at the Givenchy Cemetery. One was Ernest Thake.
Additional Information
Brother of Leading Seaman Oliver Thake who died on 16 Sep 1918 and is also commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, “Lest We Forget – Much Hadham 1914-18” by Richard Maddams (Much Hadham Forge Museum), Jonty Wild
