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Rfmn. Ernest Corrie
British Army 11th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Kennington, London
(d.24th March 1918)
Ernest Corrie was presumed killed in action on 24th March 1918 during the German Spring Offensive when the allied 5th Army was driven back across the former Somme battlefield. Ernest is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, six kilometres north-east of Albert, along with over 14,000 other casualties.
His younger brother, Reginald, was at the time in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in France not far from where Ernest was killed, while older brother, Archibald William was in the Middle East.