Name
Ernest Walter Izzard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
268052
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans. Ashley Road Post Office Memorial, St Albans, Post Office Sorting Office, St Albans
Pre War
Corporal Ernest Walter Izzard was born in St. Albans in 1886, the son of James & Alice Izzard. He married Lily May Pratt in St. Albans in 1909 and the couple lived at Guion House, New Dalton Street. Lily was a Straw Hat maker and Ernest was a local Postman.
Address given as 33 Kimberley Road, St Albans.
Wartime Service
He joined the Hertfordshire Regiment, most likely in late 1916, and most likely served with No.2 Company, which contained mainly men from the St. Albans area.
Served as part of the 118 Brigade, 39 Division.
Ernest was killed in action on the 31st July 1917 at St. Julian, when the Hertfordshire Regiment were devastated during an attack on the village. The operation was part of the Third Battle of Ypres, the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele. He has no know grave and his name is recorded on the Menin Gate in Ypres. He was entitled to the British War medal and the Victory Medal. Lily and Ernest did not have any children.
Additional Information
It was 30 years before she remarried. In 1948, aged 66, she married Thomas Vass. She died in 1963.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Tim Abbott
