ERNEST+WILLIAMS

 Williams, Ernest John, Private, 18242, 12th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Disembarked for service 29th August 1915 Born Llanelly, Carmarthenshire Enlisted Matlock, Derbyshire Killed in action 11th August 1917 aged 23 Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

1911 Census A farm labourer Nephew of Daniel Turberville, a gamekeeper, of Fir Tree Cottage, Sydnope, Two Dales, Derbyshire

(Photograph and article from the Derbyshire Times, 25th August 1917)


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