E Williams

Ernest Williams

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Williams, Ernest

27 March 1895, Mells, Somerset

Jesse and Annie (née New)

6th Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment

G.1995

Lance Corporal

9 April 1917, France, age 22

The Arras Memorial at Faubourg-D´Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France: Bay 2

Biography:
Ernest Williams was born on 5 September 1892, in Mells, Somerset. He was the son and second child of Jesse, a domestic coachman, and Annie (née
New). He had two brothers. His father died, in January 1898, when Ernest was two.

By 1901, Annie and her sons had moved to Woking, and were living in Board School Road. In 1903, Annie married Samuel Robert Tutt, a tailor, and had
another son with him – they were then living in Knaphill.

After leaving school, Ernest was working as a labourer, before being engaged as an under-gardener at Comeragh Court, Hook Heath.

Ernest enlisted with The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment in September 1914. He was deployed to France with the 6th Battalion at the beginning of
1916.

Ernest Williams was killed on 9 April 1917. His final resting place is unknown; he is commemorated, with others of his regiment, in Bay 2 of The Arras
Memorial at Faubourg-D´Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France.

His two brothers, Arthur and Leonard Williams are also both commemorated on the St John’s memorial.

The Arras Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and
7 August 1918 and have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period were the Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in the spring of 1918.