ERNEST GEORGE ARNOLD

Ipswich War Memorial and Cenotaph

 

 

Born: 1893, Walton, Suffolk.

Died: 15th December 1918; age 25; died of Influenza and Broncho-Pneumonia, at the Military Hospital, Thetford, Norfolk.

Informant: Eliza Arnold – mother, of Mount Street, Ipswich.

Residence: 35, Mount Street, Ipswich.

 

Rank: Private/Miner; Service Number: TR/5/90751.

Regiment: Training Reserve, 7th Battalion, transferred to (433973) 428th Agricultural Coy, Labour Corps.

 

Grave Reference:

D.13.33.

Ipswich Old Cemetery,

Ipswich.

 

Relatives Notified & Address: Third son of Henry & Eliza Arnold, of 35, Mount Street, Ipswich.

Brother-in-law to ALFRED EDWARD ROPER.

 

CENSUS

 

1901   78, Albion Street, Ipswich.

 

Ernest was 8 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

Henry Arnold, 39, a Service Layer – Gas Works, born Ipswich.

Eliza Arnold (nee Ramsey), 38, born Ipswich.

Edward Henry Arnold, 12, born Ipswich.

Mabel Maud Arnold, 11, born Ipswich.

Bertram Walton Arnold, 10, born Walton, Suffolk.

Elsie Lily Arnold, 6, born Ipswich.

Hilda Florence V. Arnold, 4, born Wivenhoe, Essex.

Arthur Arnold, 2, born Wivenhoe.

 

1911   34, Mount Street, Ipswich.

 

Ernest was 18 years old, a Dealer General. He was living with his parents, siblings + nephew.

Henry, 49, a Service Layer – Ipswich Gas Light Company.

Eliza, 48.

Edward, 22, a General Labourer.

Mabel, 21, an Almond Bleacher.

Bertram, 20, Militia.

Hilda, 14.

Arthur, 12.

William Noah B. Arnold, 2, born Ipswich.

 

Mr. Alfred Wrinch

 

Ipswich Journal – Saturday, 8th February 1902 – THE EDUCATION ACT – On Thursday, 6th February, at the Ipswich Police Court, Henry Arnold, a labourer of Albion Street, Ipswich, was summoned before Mr. Alfred Wrinch (chairman), Mr. John May, Mr. Robert Maplestone Miller, Col. John Henry Josselyn, Mr. Henry Mason Jackaman, and Mr. Samuel Richard Anness, charged with neglect to send his children to school. He was fined 2s. 6d.

In June and July 1902, a commitment order was ordered by Colonel John Henry Josselyn (chairman), Samuel Richard Anness, William Orford White, and George Hines, Esqrs., in the case of Henry Arnold, a labourer, of 78, Albion Street, for unpaid fines of 7s. 6d., for not sending his children to school.

 

Soldiers’ Effects to Eliza Arnold – mother.

 

Ernest is also remembered on the handwritten war memorial at The Mission Free Church, Curriers Lane, Ipswich.

 

THE LABOUR CORPS:

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