Ernest Riley
Service Number
92537
Military Unit
4th Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment)
Date of birth
Unknown
Date of Death
04 Mar 1918 (32 Years Old)
Place of Birth
Brinsley Nottinghamshire
Employment, Education or Hobbies
He was a miner.
- Family History
- Military History
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Family History
He was the son of Joseph and Fanny Riley. His father died when Ernest was young and his mother had remarried by the 1901 Census to a Charles Orrell. Ernest married Sarah Ruth Leivers in the Basford Registration District in 1906. He was living in Selston when his daughter Francis Mary was born in 1907 and by the time of his second child, Joseph's birth, in 1910 was living in Greasley. In 1911 he was living with his family at 38 Lower Granby Street Ilkeston.
Military History
Unknown
Extra Information
He died in Eastwood on 4th March 1918 of influenza and was buried in St James churchyard at Brinsley. Research by Peter Gillings
