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Pte. Ernest John Leman
British Army 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Salthouse, Norfolk
(d.15th September 1916)
Ernest Leman was born 6th April 1888 in Kelling. He enlisted in Norwich, Norfolk. He went missing in action on 15th of September 1916 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial and also on the War Memorial in Salthouse, Norfolk alongside his brother Frank Sydney Leman of the Essex Regiment also killed in action just a few kilometres away on the 23rd of March 1918.
Their younger brother Newton Leman survived the war, injured from shrapnel and suffering from shell shock he lived his life farming the land around Salthouse, Norfolk.