FULLER, Ernest Holmes

Crouy-Vauxrot French National CemeteryCredit: Unknown

Private
1st Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Ernest was born 1895 in Newport to Arthur & Georgina (nee ADAMS) FULLER who were living at 3 Ingatestone Terrace, Granville Road in Cowes around the time of Ernest’s death. Previously the family had lived at 18 Clarendon Street & 23 Royal Exchange in Newport.

Ernest, aged 19, was Killed in Action on the 16th of September 1914 & commemorated by the Commission upon a Special Memorial within the Crouy-Vauxrot French National Cemetery. Within the cemetery there are 50 First World War casualties of these nearly half are unidentified & it is believed that one of these is Ernest, hence the ‘special memorial’ which has the Family Inscription, chosen by Ernest's mother, "WE TRUST IN JESU'S LOVE TO MEET HIM THERE".

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

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

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.