WILLIAMS Ernest

  • First Name(s):
    Ernest 
  • Surname:
    WILLIAMS
  • Service Number:
    8955
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    4th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    29th September 1915
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq, Angora Memorial, Panel 178.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born and resident Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, enlisted Birmingham
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

WILLIAMS Ernest Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove Independent Order of Oddfellows

Further Information About WILLIAMS Ernest

Appears on the memorial under Victoria Lodge

From the Bromsgrove, Droitwich & Redditch Weekly Messenger 18th September 1915:
INTERNED AT CONSTANTINOPLE
The relatives of Private Ernest Williams 4th Worcesters , of 9 Alcester Road Bromsgrove have been informed by the International Committee of The Red Cross Prisoners of War Agency Switzerland that according to a list received from The Red Crescent Society, Constantinople, Williams was taken on August 6th and had been provisionally interned at Constantinople.  Previous to the war he was in the employ of the Midland railway Company at Saltley.

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