227389 Sgt. Ernest Ingham British Army 8th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment from:Goldthorpe, Yorkshire (d.1st Jul 1916) This is taken from an article in the local paper at the time:
Sergt. E. Ingham (Y and L) - Mrs Ingham has received the following letter from a warrant officer in her husbands company:- It is with the deepest sorrow and with the utmost sympathy that I write these few lines to you, thus fulfilling a promise made to your husband. It grieves me to tell you that he was killed in action on July 1st, the morning of the great attack. It may be of some little comfort to you to know that hr died as he lived-a brave man, regardless of fear, always ready at the call of duty, and although men were falling all around yet he never wavered and led his men forward to what was almost certain death. It is men like him that have made Kitcheners Army the great success it has been. May God give His consolation to you and the dear kiddies in your great trouble. The battalion suffered terribly; no officers returned and only one sergeant. -D. Sheldon, Company-Quarter-Master-Sergeant.
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