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Ernest Bills
Private 17541
"B" Coy. 12th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Ernest Bills died on Wednesday 27 June 1917, Age 29, and was remembered on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born 14th February 1888, at Quarry Yard, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was the son of Arthur and Sarah Bills. Arthur Bills was a Coal Miner, and native of Barlestone, Leicestershire. At the time of the 1901 census the family were living in Barlestone.
Ernest Bills was the husband of Catherine Bills (later Hill), of 5 Hardwick Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 28th June 1918
Bills - In loving memory of my dear husband, Private Ernest Bills, who was killed in action, June 27th 1917, aged 29 years. The bugle called, he hastened forth, The bravest in the battle's van; Remember he who yields his life, Is a soldier and a man. - From his loving Wife and Children, Leslie and Arthur.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Bills, Private Ernest, Sherwood Foresters.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
BILLS Ernest. Born Sutton, Notts. Enlisted
at Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield) 12th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and
Derby Regt.). Private 17541, killed in action, France & Flanders 27th
June 1917.
Research by Heather Faulkes