Ernest Handley
He attended Brunts School. He was employed by London & North Eastern Railways on 17th April 1939 as a junior numbertaker at Clipstone Colliery on a wage of £1 5s a week. His father was also employed by L&NER. He had joined the company when he was 15 years old and in 1939 he was a signalman at Mansfield Colliery on a wage of £2 15s living in a house ownd by L&NER at a rent of 7s a week. Ernest snr had been born on 22/2/1900 and employed from 12/3/1915.
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Son of Ernest Henry and Eliza Hannah Handley, of 25 Bentinck Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Siblings: Wilfred born in 1926 and Geoffrey in 1932.
He married Doris May Baxter in the summer of 1944, so thay had been married less than a year when Ernest was killed on 13th March 1945 and they had no children. Doris had been born on 28th December 1921, so only 3 days younger than Ernest and she worked as a tin box machinist and in 1939 she was living at 122 Maltby Road, Mansfield. Doris married Reginald McDonald in 1948
AMES: Air Ministry Experimental Station. The name given to the RAF RADAR developement team prior to the war but the acronym was used to name RADAR stations throughout the war.
Ernest was killed during an air raid on Baraque. This was probably Baraque de Fraiture the higest point in Belguim and now the site of a NATO radio communication and early warning system.
Buried at Heverlee War Cemetery, plot 2.K.4, Belguim
Brunts School Book of Remebrance:
Handley E LAC RAF Killed in Action
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