Life Story
Little is known about Ernest. He was the son of John Ernest and Lily
Davison, of Hinckley, Leicestershire and is commemorated on the Castle
Hill memorial there. As he is also on the Melton Mowbray Roll of Honour he
may have moved their prior to the war.
His burial site indicates that he was killed during the Burma Campaign,
possibly as part of the Chindits special operations forces in Burma. It is
likely Ernest was killed in the intense ghting behind Japanese Lines in the
early months of 1944 which head to heavy casualties.
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