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FRITH Ernest Harold

Frith, Ernest Harold

Rank: Private

Year of death: 1918

Date of birth: QE June 1899

Date of death: 24.4.1918

Place of death: Pozieres, France

Service number: 60687

Regiment: 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own)

Medals:
Missing presumed killed in action. Recorded on Memorial at Pozieres, France.
Military record available on Find My Past as part of the ‘Burnt Series’, including personal information, details of enlistment & subsequent army training & posting to the Western Front 4.4.1918.

Cemetery location: Dean Road Cemetery, Section H (Family grave)

Where remembered?:
CWGC, Pozieres Memorial, France, Panel 26-27.
Remembered on family grave in Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough

Biographical Information

Born in Scarborough 1899, son of Harry & Eliza Ann Frith. 1901 & 1911 census living at 1 Bedford Street, Scarborough. Father, Harry killed in the German Bombardment of Scarborough 16.12.1914.

Inscription

In loving memory/of my dear husband/HARRY FRITH/who was killed in the bombardment of Scarborough Dec 16 1914/aged 45 years/also his wife/ELIZA ANN/died Dec 4 1956/aged 87 years/also Pte ERNEST HAROLD/2nd West Yorks Regt/son of the above/killed in action at Pozieres, France/April 24 1918/aged 19 years.