254018 Pte. Ernest Jones British Army Cheshire Regiment from:Little Leigh, Cheshire My grandfather Ernest Jones served in the First World War as a Private in the Cheshire Regiment. He came from a small village called Little Leigh.
I do not know where he was posted to or which battles he fought in but I understand that he might have had something to do with horses in his service. As a country man and farm labourer he would have had experience with the care and use of horses.
What is quite amazing is that his 6 brothers also served in the war and all returned home. Their names are recorded on a marble plaque in the Church of Little Leigh.
As I write this on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War, I regret that I do not know more about my Grandfather. He never spoke of his time as a soldier.
I am now 3/4 of a century old and soon my generation will be lost through the passage of time to no longer have personal memories of the men who fought so long ago.
We have a kind of duty to record their experiences to pass on to our children so that people like the ordinary men, like my grandfather, will not be forgotten.
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