Private 40023 Ernest Topping
Regiment/Unit: Labour Corps -
Theatre of War: Home
Date Entered Therein: 10/03/916
Previous Reg/Num: Pte. 66024 Royal Welsh (Welch) Fusiliers.
Age at death: 31
Born: St Helens Lancs
Resided: St Helens Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Parr St Peters Churchyard - Extension. No 14.
BMD details:
Birth reg Prescot Q3 1887. Vol 8b page 750.
Death reg Prescot Q4 1918 age 31. Vol 8b page 1581
Burial Date: 5th Dec 1918
Census details:
1901 Ernest 13 is living with his parents John 56, Mary 53 and siblings William 26, Alfred 25, Maggie 23, John 21, Jane 17, Enoch 16, Harry 15, Herbert 12 and Matilda 10 at 426 Fleet Lane, Parr, St Helens
1911 Ernest 24 is a Colliery Hewer Underground. He is living with his parents John 68, Mary 66, William 36, Albert 34, John 33, Herbert 22, Jane 26 and Georgina 25 at 426 Fleet Lane, Parr, St Helens
Notes:
Not found on CWGC.
MIC has his forename as Edward
Discharged to 227 Derbyshire Hill Road, Parr, St Helens.
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/40023ErnestTopping.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
SHROH ref. 1324
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