1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

Soldier Record

Ernest Louis John Shearing

Contributed by: Tracy Dunne, on 2008-11-02

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Rank
First Name Ernest Louis John
Surname Shearing
Year of Birth 1897
Year of Death 1917
Regiment Royal Hampshire Regiment
Place of Wartime Residence Wimborne, Dorset

Ernest Louis John's Story

War Diaries for the Hampshire Regiment serving at Baghdad, it mentions that on "28th Dec 1917, lost five men". Ernest was one of those men. He was unmarried, but left a broken hearted sweetheart behind in England, as well as his loving and very close family.

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