GRAY, Ernest Edward

Guillemont Road Cemetery, Somme FranceCredit: CWGC

Private
2nd Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Ernest was born 1894 in Newport to Robert James & Ellen GRAY. In 1901 the family were living at 45 Hunnyhill in Newport. In 1915 at All Saints Church in Newchurch, he married Ada Ethel YOUNG who was living at 7 Sussex Road, Sidcup in Kent around the time of Ernest’s death.

Ernest, aged 23, Died of Wounds on the 3rd of February 1917 & is buried in the Guillemont Road Cemetery, Somme in France beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY” alongside 2,262 of his First World War comrades, with 1,523 of these remaining unidentified.

Ernest is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

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.