Soldier

• Name: Ernest Smith
• Date of birth: 1886
• Place of Birth: Gosberton Clough, Lincolnshire, England
• Date of Birth Registration: July – September 1886
• Place of Birth Registration: Spalding, Lincolnshire, England

Father

• Name: John Thomas Smith
• DOB: 1851
• Place of Birth: Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
• Occupation: Farmer

Siblings: (Name), (DOB), (POB)

• Joseph H Smith, 1879, Pinchbeck
• John R Smith, 1881, Pinchbeck
• Edward Smith, 1882, Pinchbeck
• Mary A Smith, 1884, Pinchbeck
• Charles Smith, 1885, Pinchbeck
• Ernest Smith, 1886, Gosberton Clough
• Henry Smith, 1888, Pinchbeck
• Plus 3 more whose names are unknown taken from the 1911 census

Census

• 1891: Ernest is living with his parents at Beck Bank, Gosberton, Lincolnshire.
• 1901: Ernest is living with his parents at Northgate, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire.
• 1911: Ernest is living with his wife in her parents house at Mill Green Farm, West Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. The census gives him an age of 24 and he is listed as a Farmer’s son, working on farm.

Wife

• Name: marian Ada Smith
• Date of birth: 1886
• Place of Birth: Pinchbeck

Marriage

• Date of Marriage: 12th November 1910
• Place of Marriage: Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England

Children

• Trevor John Smith, 1911, Pinchbeck

Attestation Papers

• Available

Soldier’s Died In The Great War

• These records show that Private Ernest Smith, 25187, 10th Bn Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment was killed in action on 20th September 1917 in the Western European Theatre in France and Flanders.

Pension Records

• None found

Effects Left To

• Wife Marian A

© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials