Ernest Clements, my Great Uncle

I have been doing a bit of research on the other side of my family tree and I thought I would post some details of my Great Uncle who died in WW1. He was my Grandmothers brother on the maternal side.

Lance Bombardier Ernest Clements
775067
B Battery, 245th Brigade, 49th (West Riding) Division, Royal Field Artillery
Died aged 25 on 10th October 1918

Son of Esther Clements of Bramley, Leeds; Husband of Sarah Clements of 32 Couper Street, Old Goole, East Yorkshire
Remembered with Honour Ramillies British Cemetery, Grave Ref B.3

Originally from Leeds, Ernest married Sarah Dixon from Goole in Leeds 1913.
Their son, Leslie was baptised on 17th March 1915 at Goole Parish Church.

Attached is a photocopy of a photograph (apologies for poor quality) from a family member. No one knows where the original is and sad to say but this is the only photo of Ernest that exists. I looked in Goole library for a photo of him among the others who died from Goole but no luck.
The photo shows Ernest, his wife Sarah and baby Leslie, possibly taken around early 1916 (?)

I have his medal card but unfortunately no service records exist for him.

Also attached is a photo of his grave kindly taken recently by Michelle, a GWF member with grateful thanks.

He died of wounds on 10th October 1918 and I am currently waiting for copies of the war diaries around that date. It will be interesting if possible to see what B Battery were doing, and will post details if anyone is interested.


Lesley

Edited: Thanks to Paul (Recce Mitch) for re-sizing the photos.

 

Hello Lesley

thank you for posting
very interesting

regards
Clive

 

Good luck to you Lesley with researching your relatives.

 

Hi Lesley thanks for posting.

Cheers
Paul

 

Thanks for posting Lesley.

Regards Michael.

 

Thank you for the lovely comments

Lesley

 

245th Brigade, B Battery

Further to my earlier posting, I have since found out what happened on 10th October 1918.
My Great Uncle died of wounds on that date (and almost sure he was wounded on the same day).

The War Diary attached states that the Batteries were heavily shelled and B Battery had 14 casualties.

With thanks to Rob (Ramacal) for the diaries.

Lesley

 

Thank you Lesley

well done Rob


regards
Clive

 

It's really good when you can find the details in the War Diary.

 

Thanks for sharing a lovely piece of your family history with us .

 

Thanks again for your kind comments.
It is really nice to see a photo of his grave and someone has been to pay their respects.

Lesley

 

I have enjoyed with sadness reading of your uncles war and your photos bring it all to reality. Here is a bit of nothing to do with your story but the photo of Ernest's grave has nudged me to tell my little story on here. Our family graves are in our local Holmes cemetery Rotherham dad has looked after them and used to push me there in my pram and he always looked after the soldiers graves too so when dad died he went to his mum and for 32 years I too have carried on and my daughter too was pushed by me in her pram and now we are joined by her children and my grandchildren age 8 & 5 go off and look after the fallen soldiers so I think I can safely say these war graves will continue to be cared for in the future by at least two more generations . Elsie

 

good day 4jonboy.m.yesterday.12:05.pm.re:goole ww1 commemorations.#1.thank you for sharing your family.and photo's a great post ,regards bernard85