BROWNE, Ernest

Credit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Private

11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters

Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment

Ernest was born in Sneinton in Nottinghamshire. Nothing is known about Ernest at this time & his connection to Newport in unclear.

Ernest was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the first day of the Battle of The Somme on the 1st of July 1916. His body was never found or identified & so Ernest is commemorated by the Commission upon the Thiepval Memorial on The Somme in France. He is commemorated together with 72,306 of his missing First World War comrades.

Ernest is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetery

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.