Name
Ernest Thomas Jolly
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Civilian
NA
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
Pre War
Born on 23 Jun 1886 in Withersfield, Suffolk son of Thomas and Millicent (Hollis) Jolly and was living in Hampden House, Ware Road, Hertford. He was a bank clerk.
Wartime Service
He had been attending the Hertford Conservative Club in Bull Plain and was killed by a Zeppelin raid. Oberleutnant-zur-See W. Peterson, in the then new German Zeppelin L16, bombed Hertford at 2200 on 13 Oct 1915 after mistaking the River Lea for the Thames. He thought that he was attacking East London when he dropped 48 incendiary and explosive bombs. The bombs from L16 killed 9 people and injured 15.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
