WESTMORE, Ernest Albert

Arras Memorial, FranceCredit: CWGC

Private
1st Battalion
Wiltshire Regiment

Ernest was born 1884 in Newport to George & Caroline (nee BROOM) WESTMORE who were living in Shide Cottage, Blackwater around the time of Ernest’s death. The family had previously lived in Marvel Road in Carisbrooke. In 1907 at the Bible Christian Chapel in Newport, he married Lucy Theresa NEVE who was living in Copse Lane Freshwater.

Ernest had previously served in the Hampshire Regiment but transferred to the Wiltshire’s where he was listed as Missing Presumed Killed, aged 33, on the 24th of March 1918 at the Battle of Bapaume. His body was never found or identified & so Ernest is commemorated by the Commission upon the Arras Memorial to the Missing in France together with 34,802 of his missing First World War comrades.

Ernest is also remembered on the County & St. Lawrence 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.