Ernest Charles Scattergood
Warpboard hand Lace
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Ernest Charles Scattergood was born in 1879 at Nottingham, he was the son of the late Charles a box maker and Emily Scattergood née Hayes of Main Street, Burton Joye, Nottingham.
His father Charles was born in 1847 at Nottingham he died in 1900 aged 53 yrs, his mother Emily Hayes was born in 1847 they were married on 3rd June 1876 at St Marys church Nottingham, they had a further son Herbert Scattergood born 1882 at Nottingham.
In the 1911 census the family lived at 27 Gladstone Street St Mary's, Emily 64 yrs is living with her sons Ernest Charles 32 yrs single a warphand lace maker and Herbert 29 yrs single a warehouse man
The family later lived at 18 St Ledger Terrace Westminster Street St Ann's Nottingham.
Private Ernest Charles Scattergood enlisted at Nottingham, he served with the 9th battalion Sherwood Foresters Regiment, he entered theatre after 1 January 1916, possibly as a conscript. He was probably wounded or taken ill during the battalion's winter occupation of front line trenches near St Pierre Divion next to the River Ancre, (Somme). It was a waterlogged area and illness was ever present. Ernest would have been moved down the casualty clearing line to a hospital in the UK ( probably Bagthorpe War Hospital Nottingham) and died of his wounds and nephritis . His grave is in Nottingham General Cemetery, grave 3341.
additional research and information Peter Gillings
Ernest Charles Scattergood grave
61560 Private Ernest Charles Scattergood died at home (in UK) on 17 April 1917.
Thanks to Mick McCann and the British War Graves team for the photo.