E.+SIMMONDS

Simmonds, Ernest, Lance Corporal, 14498, 10th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Born Clifton, Derbyshire Enlisted Derby Resided Clifton, Derbyshire Killed in action 1st July 1917

Buried in Bailleul Road East Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blangy, Special Memorial V, D, 3

Ashbourne News, 13th July 1917 Ernest Simmonds was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Simmonds, of Alrewas Mill Cottages, Clifton. He enlisted in the autumn of 1914, and he had been formerly employed at Alrewas Mill, and was a member of the Hanging Bridge Football Club. He and several other soldiers were killed when holding a post which was heavily shelled. At the time of this report, his brother, Sergeant Herbert Simmonds, was in hospital at Warwick, and his other brother, Lance Corporal Dick Simmonds, was serving in France.

1911 Census Aged 17 Employed as a weaver at a small ware manufacturer's Son of Joseph Simmonds, a weaver at a small ware manufacturer's, of Alrewas Mill, Ashbourne, Derbyshire