posted on 2024-01-16, 15:02authored byLest We Forget Project Team
Ernest James Frude fought with the 1/4th Hampshire Regiment in Mesopotamia from 1914. He was injured in the knee, and was sent to recuperate in England and Ireland while the Hampshires went to India. He was then assigned to the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. He was sent to the Western Front, where he was eventually killed by an explosive shell on the 14th April 1918 near Ploegsteert in Belgium. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Memorial to the Missing in Ploegsteert, Basingstoke War Memorial Park and in St Michael's Church, Basingstoke.
History
Name of contributor(s)
Maxine Sewell
Subject of the story/individual the object(s) relate to
Ernest James Frude
Date(s) the event(s) in the story took place
1914 - 1918
Location(s) where the event(s) in the story took place
Mesopotamia, Ploegsteert
Object(s)
Photograph of Ernest
Ernest's war medals (1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal)
Ernest's 'Death Penny'