DENNY Ernest

  • First Name(s):
    Ernest 
  • Surname:
    DENNY
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
  • Unit:
    15th Battalion attached 17th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    4th August 1917
  • Age At Death:
    29
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave II. C. 10.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Robert William and E.H. Denny, of Briarwood, Mount Pleasant, Redditch

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DENNY Ernest Is Named On These Memorials

Redditch Bates Hill Methodist Church now in Redditch Emmanuel Church
Redditch War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Redditch Bates Hill Methodist Church now in Redditch Emmanuel Church with the information: Lieut

Further Information About DENNY Ernest

One of the war poets.

Author of “Lest I no more come back” and other poems, “The Last Adventure,” etc.

The following report appears in The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger, Saturday 18th August 1917:
Redditch Officers’ Death from Wounds – Second-Lieutenant Ernest Denny London Regt., attached King’s Royal Rifle Corps., who had died of wounds received in action was the second son of Mr and Mrs R. W. Denny, Mount Pleasant, Redditch.  He enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles in November, 1915, and received his commission in June of the following year.  In December, 1916, he was attached to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger digitised by and courtesy of Martin Stephens.

On 1901 census Ernest, aged 12, born in Rillington, Yorkshire, lived with his parents Robert W. Denny, Certified Schoolmaster/Headmaster at the Wesleyan School and Ellen Denny at 196 Mount Pleasant, Redditch.  On the 1911 census he is aged 22 and seems to be classed as a school teacher, for the county council but also a patient at a Sanatorium in Lowestoft.

On the Ancestry website Probate records Ernest Denny of 196 Mount Pleasant, Redditch, Second Lieutenant, 2/5th Battalion, London Regiment, attached 17th King’s Rifles, died 4th August 1917 in France.

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