Name
Ernest J Cakebread
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36296
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BENGEO (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD
A. 42. 17.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford,
Christchurch Plaque, now in Holy Trinity Church, Bengeo,
St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware,
Christchurch Memorial, Ware,
Ware Town Memorial,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Bengeo memorials
Pre War
Born in 1897, in Ware, to parents Arthur Edward and Ellen Cakebread.
He had two brothers and three sisters and in 1901 they were living at 8 Bourne Hill, Ware and his father was a wood carter. By 1911 they had moved to 14 Vicarage Road, Ware and his father was now a labourer carman and Ernest was a newsboy
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford formerly 6018 Hertfordshire Regiment and transferred to Royal Berkshire Regiment. This battalion was raised at Reading in September 1914, they trained at Colchester and moved to Salisbury Plain in May 1915.
They went to France on 26th July 1915 and the division concentrated at Flesselles. In 1916 they took part in a number of the Somme battles, including Albert, Delville Wood and Thiepval Ridge. As Ernest died of his wounds in the UK, in hospital in King’s Norton, Worcestershire. It is difficult to say at which battle he had received them
Additional Information
Brother of Private Charles Edward Cakebread who was killed in action on 30 Aug 1918 and is also commemorated on some of the same memorials.
His service number appears as 30276 in some records.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
Malcolm Lennox, Terry & Glenis Collins
