Remembered Today: Driver Ernest Edward CROPLEY, 121st Brigade Royal Field Artillery who died on 20th March 1917, Ferme-Olivier Cemetery
CROPLEY, ERNEST EDWARD
Rank: Driver
Service No: 3827
Date of Death: 20/03/1917
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
"B" Bty. 121st Bde.
Grave ReferencePlot 3. Row B. Grave 13.
Cemetery FERME-OLIVIER CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Cropley, of Heaton Norris.
Source: More Than a Name - stories of the men of Stockport area who fought and died in the Great War 1914 - 1918
http://www.stockport...php?name_id=641
In the late spring of 1892, George Cropley, a labourer on the railway, married Georgina King at St Mary’s Heaton Reddish Church. Ernest was born in about 1895 and was followed by Henry Thomas in around 1897 and Blanche in 1903. When the census was taken in 1901, the family was living at 15 Ale Lamb Road, in the Lancashire Hill area of town and, by the time of the Great War, had moved to 6 Earl Street in Edgeley. Ernest worked locally as a cleaner at the Edgeley locomotive sheds which belonged to the London and North Western Railway Company.
After the Battle of the Somme in the summer and autumn of 1916, 121st Brigade moved to the Ypres Salient and, on 20 March 1917, was at its firing positions behind the front line at Elverdinghe, to the north of Ypres. The Brigade War Diary notes that “B” Battery was heavily shelled and Ernest and another soldier were killed. He and Charles Wheeler from Glamorgan are buried in adjacent graves.
Source: London and North Western Railway Staff Magazine
Driver Cropley, R.F.A., formerly Cleaner, StockportLoco., was killed in France on March 20th. He had been attached to the Welsh Army Corps.,and had been in France for the past 15 months.
The 121st Bridgade were a K4 New Army unit, a war formed brigade and joined the 38th (Welsh) Divisional Artillery in August 1915. The division deployed to France November / December 1915.
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