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Ernest Vale
Ancestry site, Military records
Sergeant Ernest Vale, born and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 830064, Territorial Force,
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Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, died of wounds, 1 September 1917, at
Advance Dressing Station, France & Flanders, aged 24. Buried Bard Cottage Cemetery,
Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium. Parents were Alfred and Ada Vale of Redditch and his wife
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was Beatrice Mary Vale of 1A Mount Pleasant, Redditch. Ernest had enlisted 27 February
1910 at the age of 18 years 1 month and had been a cycle worker at Royal Enfield. At the
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time was living at 30 Evesham Road, Redditch. On 27 February 1914 he signed up for a
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further 4 years. On his service records it stated that on 13 August 1917 firing a cartridge
case split causing a blow-back, which had injured him, slight abrasion of face. He was not to
blame.
Bard Cottage Cemetery – source:-www.findagrave.com
Remembered on St Stephen’s war memorial, Redditch, St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross and Headless
Cross C. of E. School war memorial.
(On the 1911 census Ernest Vale, aged 19, Cycle Polisher, lived with his parents Alfred and Ada Vale, at 30
Evesham Road, Headless Cross.
He is remembered at: - http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/441060/VALE,%20ERNEST%20ALFRED
It states that he was the son of Alfred and Ada Vale of Redditch and the husband of Beatrice Mary Vale of 1A
Mount Pleasant, Redditch.
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