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Ernest Sanford

Private

Service No. 65109

Age 25

Died on 5 November 1918

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

FONTAINE-AU-BOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Nord, France

Son of Lizzie Lezanta Sanford, of 97, Cooke St., Barking, Essex, and the late William Henry Sanford.

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Laura Lincoln

May you live in our hearts forever.

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Ernest O valiant heart, to whom your glory came. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Harry

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Laura Lincoln

Ernest fought until 5th November 1918 so he would have been in Belgium at some point.

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The photo is of Ernest with his brothers Jack, who was killed 7/10/1916 and Will who was captured but survived and came home with a withered...

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Ernest, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment ...

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