Name
Ernest Cannon
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/11/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19973
Bedfordshire Regiment
6st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2C
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in and was a resident of Hitchin and enlisted in Notting Hill in London. He was the son of Charles and Edith Cannon of 86, Whinbush Road, Hitchin.
He was a coach builder by trade, but before enlistment he was emplyed as a post man
Wartime Service
He was allocated the Regimental Number 19973 in the 6th Battalion of the Bedfords and was killed in action in France.
On the 14th November 1916 the 6th Battalion was in an assembly position in Tournai Trench at Mailly-Maillet from which an attack was made on Frankfort Trench. The attack was unsuccessful. The following day an attack was made on Munich Trench with substantial casualties and on the 16th November the Battalion was entrenched on the Wayon Road and it is probable that Ernie was killed in this action.
He death was reported by an officer of the Loyal Lancashire Pioneers after a sergeant found his body in 'No Man's Land'.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Pier/Face 2C of the great Thiepval Memorial to the Missing on the Somme in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
