855688, Lance-Sergeant, Ernest WILLIAMS
Aged 27
| believed to be Born in Q1-1917 [Newmarket 3b:725], youngest of 7 sons of Frederick William and Elizabeth Martha WILLIAMS (née SMITH). The family were at Drapery Row, Newmarket for the 1911 census, all the children at that time having been born in Cambridge. (5 boys 2 girls in 1911 and 3 had already died). This Frederick W. Williams died in 1932. In 1936 at Malton House, Kingston Passage, Newmarket was Frederick Williams. CWGC have Frederick and Elizabeth Martha. No other Williams family in Newmarket comes close. One complication is the 1939 register has Frederick A and Esther S Williams in Kingston Passage with a daughter, but they are much younger than the Williams in the 1911 census and this seems certain to be another Williams family. All rather unsatisfactory, hopefully a relative will come forward. It does appear that his parents and at least one sister (Lilian FEW) died in Newmarket. Sister Annie married Stanley BERRIDGE in Newmarket and seems to have live at some time in Bedfordshire. He married Mildred Joan KING, of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, in Thornbury in Q1-1943. The Regiment were stationed at Thornbury during WW2. His address on the marriage certificate is Wisbech and father Frederick is recorded as deceased There is a Sgt of Royal Artillery on the Old Warden war memorial who may be the same man, but again no documentary evidence of this has come to light |
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Around the 10th October the 67th (Suffolk) Medium Regiment, R.A. were at Mouen, 4 miles SW of Caen. On this day Ernest and one
of his unit were killed, but a further nine gunners who died that day are buried in Banneville. Initially buried near St Manvieu-Norrey, he was re-interred in Banneville on 26th June 1946. |
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