Rank
Gunner
Regiment
Royal Garrison Artillery
Date of death
24 April 1916
Age of death
19
Address
37 Landsdown Road
Seven Kings
Ilford
RED
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Address source
1911 Census
Local memorial
Cemetery / Memorial
France
Photo source
War Memorial Gazette
Biography
Ernest Fair was born in 1897. He was the youngest of five children born to George and Harriet Fair. According to the 1911 census, Ernest lived at 37 Lansdowne Road, Seven Kings, and worked as a telegraph messenger for the Ilford Post Office.
Ernest enlisted as a Gunner with the 1/1st Essex Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He was sent to the Western Front but was killed in action in the Arras sector on 24th April 1916, aged 19 years old. Ernest was buried in Maroeuil British Cemetery in France.
Research by Redbridge Museum, with thanks to Patrick O’Mara
Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry.com