LEAL, Ernest Leonard Chambers

Cambrin Military Cemetery, FranceCredit: Unknown

Sapper
11th Field Company
Royal Engineers

Ernest was born 1890 in Newport to Ernest John & Hannah (nee PALMER) LEAL who were living at 61 Carisbrooke Road around the time of Ernest’s death. The family had previously lived at Cross Lane in Newport.

Ernest, aged 22, was Killed in Action on the 9th of April 1915 & rests in Cambrin Military Cemetery in France beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription, chosen by his mother, “HIS MEMORY IS AS DEAR TO-DAY AS IN THE HOUR HE PASSED AWAY”. Ernest lies alongside 815 of his First World War comrades.

Ernest is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials. His brother Cecil Jack also fell & is buried at Carisbrooke Cemetery.

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.