Biography of Private Ernest Plowright (608)
6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Formerly in the 1st, 2nd and 10th Lincs
Died 6th November 1918

• Name: Sarah Elizabeth Christian
• DOB: 1872
• Place Of Birth: Scopwick, Lincolnshire, England
• Marriage: 19 February 1893 Scopwick, Lincolnshire, England

• Ernest’s’s brother James William Plowright also fought and were killed in WW1. James can be found on our page dedicated to the Aslackby War Memorial.

• Father: Edward Porter
• Mother: Eliza Emily Marriott

Newspaper Mentions

• LincolnshireEcho Friday 16th July 1915
  LINCOLNSHIRE DAY BY DAY
  THe total number of recruits from Aslackby now number 27.  B. Ellis is invalided in a hosptial at Diss with a serious injury to his knee.  Sergeant Gray and Ernest Plowright has been discharged from hospital and returned again to their company.

• Sheffield Daily Telegraph Thursday 5th April 1917
  WOUNDED
  LINCOLNS
  Plowright (608), E. (Folkingham)

• Grantham Journal Saturday 14th December 1918
  Aslackby
  The sad news has reached Aslackby that Private Ernest Plowright was killed on Nov 4th and Gnr Herbert Gubbings on Nov 6th. Much sympathy is felt with their bereaved parents. Plowright was sleeping in a barn with his mates and he went outside at 11pm to attend to the horses. At that moment he was struck by shell and fatally wounded. His older brother, William has been missing for seven months and it is thought that he is a prisoner. Gubbins had been home on leave and was in the best of health and spirits on his return to France and his parents who live at Graby were expecting him home again shortly. It is understood that he was in the trenches when he received mortal wound from a shell.

• The Weekly Calualty List Tuesday January 28th 1919
  KILLED
  Plowright 608 E., (Grantham)

• Grantham Journal Saturday 1 November 1919
  In Memoriam
  PLOWRIGHT – In kind remembrance of Pte E Plowright who was killed in action Nov 4th 1918
  Greater love hath no man than this – that he lay down his life for his friends.

  From his Pal Joe Jackson (Bourne)

  PLOWRIGHT – In living and affectional remembrance of my dear husband Pte Ernest Plowright killed in action November 5th 1918.

  What would I give his hand to clasp,
  His patient face to see,
  To bear his voice, see his welcome smile,
  That meant so much to me?

  I love him in the years gone by-
  True love death cannot sever;
  If life is past, mu love shall last,
  For ever and for ever.

  From his sorrowing wife and son (Ernest)- Corby

Military Records

Medals

• The British Medal
• The Victory Medal

Memorials

• UK:
• Aslackby, plaque in St James’ Church

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
• In memory of Private E Plowright (608) 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment who died on 6 November 1918
• Remembered with honour Valenciennes (St Roch) Communal Cemetery
• Grave III. B. 9.

© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials

• Enlisted in Bourne
• Killed in action

• This is ongoing research and will be posted when completed

Sources

• WW1 Soldier’s Records (www.ancestry.co.uk)
• British Newspaper Archive.
• Fold 3
• Find My Past
• Genealogist
• Forces War Records
• British Army Service Numbers
• War Gratuity Calculator
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• National Archives – Battalion War Diaries
• General Registry Office