No.151938, Private, Ernest TALBOT
Aged 24
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Born in Gazeley on 6th June 1895 (Newmarket qtr 3 3b:500) son of John and Sarah Maria TALBOT (née WILSON). Registration was transcribed in name of TABERT.
Baptised All Saints, Gazeley on 11th August 1895
1901 census...Aged 5, he was at 5 Mill Street, Gazeley with his father John TALBOT [47]miller/horsekeeper born Rickinghall; his mother Sarah [47], born Little Dowmham; brothers Harry [19]farm labourer born Barrow, Fred [15] farm labourer, George [11] and John [8] all born Lavemham; sisters Annie [13] born Lavenham and Eliza [3] born Gazeley. His father died in 1911, before the census. 1911 census...Aged 16, farm labourer, he was at Needham Street with his widowed mother; brothers Fred and John, both farm labourers now recorded as born Little Saxham; sister Eliza and cousin Gwendoline TALBOT [3] born Gazeley. Canadian records have his other at 84 Chalk Lane, Bury St.Edmunds, had been at 36 Long Brackland, Bury St.Edmunds |
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He enlisted in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. His extensive Canadian Army records exist in RDG150 1992-92/166 page 37 9490-66, in summary:- He enlisted at Brandon, Manitoba on 6th August 1915, ( war plus 6 months), mobilised on 6th October in 79th Battalion, he gave his date of birth as 6th June 1895, a farm labourer born in Gazeley. His next of kin was his mother at 26 Long Breckland, Bury St Edmunds. Brown eyes, dark born hair, he weighed 125 lbs (56.9 kg), chest 33.5" to 37.5" (85.1 to 95.3 cm) and 5 feet 3.5" (161.3 cm)tall. He sailed from Canada on RMS 'Lapland' on 24th April 1916, arriving in England on 23rd May 1916. Transferred from 79th to 43rd Battalion on 28th June 1916 and landed in France on 29th June. He received a gun shot wound to the left thigh on 9th October 1916,, admitted to No 2 General Hospital, Le Havre 14th October and evacuated on the 'Carisbrooke Castle' to UK on 2nd November 1916. Admitted to War Hospital in Duston, Northants on 3rd, he was transferred to Canadian Convalescent Hospital, Woodcote, Epsom on 6th December and returned to duty on 2nd February 1917 and posted to Dibgate. . On 15th Oct he was transferred to 11th Reserve Battn, then 9th November back to 43rd and joined them in the field in France on 22nd November 1917. He seems to have returned to his unit in France in November 1917. The battalion war diary records that in the lines at AVION at 02:15 on 6th March 1918 the 21st Battalion had raided the German lines and in retaliation the Germans at 03:30 used high explosive and gas, estimated at 250 drums of gas. By the time the battalion was relieved that evening they had suffered 11 killed and 80 wounded. Ernest was admitted, seriously wounded, to 30 CCS, suffering from gassing, but died later that day of his wounds. The "circumstances of death" cards no long exist for "So-" onwards but luckily his Army records and battalion war diaries do.
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