Lt Ernest Warburton

[Acknown]

I am researching the above officer, who served in the 15th Sherwood Foresters. His MIC (Warburton MIC) has him entering France on 25 Aug 16. According to his ICRC card, he was wounded in the thigh and captured near Arras on 26 Oct 16. After hospital in Douai and PW camp at Heidelberg, he ended up as in internee in Switzerland in 1917. The 15th Battalion's WD makes no mention of his departure; 'in the trenches' it states for the days around the 26th. It seems he was married (Jesse?) and came from either London or Newbury. Also, he was an actor.

If anyone can assist with more details of his service, the circumstances of his capture and his acting career before and after the war (I've found nothing on-line - I don't think he's the actor E A Warburton), I would be most grateful.

Acknown

[Terry_Reeves]

Is this him?
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=ernest+warburton+AND+WO339

 

TR

Edited 28 December , 2017 by Terry_Reeves

[Acknown]

Terry,

Thanks indeed, excellent, and yes, it must be. I've noted for my next visit. I'd like to know more about his thespian career, but that's a bit off topic.

Acknown

[Terry_Reeves]

He is mentioned here:

 

http://tinyurl.com/yagwsw2f

 

The e book price is eye watering!

 

TR

[Acknown]

Terry,

Well spotted. As he only appears as a peripheral character in a book I'm (slowly) writing, I'll pass on the £127.20! The internment centre in Murren, Switzerland was an artistic place. Capt Joe Randolph Ackerley (8th East Surreys), who wrote the 1925 play 'Prisoners of War' based on his internment experiences, was also there.

Many thanks.

Acknown

[HarryBrook]

A ship's manifest dated 16 January 1927 lists passengers arriving in London from New York, amongst those listed were Ernest Warburton, 46, actor, and Jessie Mildred Warburton, 46, housewife, their intended place of residence was given as Isle of Wight.

Checking this couple on the 1911 census finds them at Humberstone Grange, Nr. Leicester. Ernest Warburton was not then an actor.

Ernest Warburton, 31, yarn and rubber merchant, born Leicester. Jessie Mildred Warburton, 30, married 6 years, no children, born Beckenham, Kent, + domestic staff of one cook and one housemaid.

The marriage - Ernest Warburton to Jessie Mildred Thompson, 1904 quarter 2, Westhampnett District, Sussex.

Ernest Warburton appears on two incomplete family trees on ancestry which gives his parents as Howgate G. Warburton 1843 - 1901 and Fanny Dove (nee Harris) 1847 - 1897.

Jessie M. Warburton born about 1881 died 1968 quarter 1, aged 87 years, Southwark District, London.

An Ernest Warburton born about 1881 died 1965 quarter 1, aged 84 years, in the Eton District, Buckinghamshire.

All the above is available on ancestry.co.uk  

 

Edit to add:- 1939 Register - 15/17 Horton St., Kensington. Appears to be a private hotel? Amongst the 17 inhabitants, several of "private means", were listed Ernest Warburton, born 21 February 1880, married, District Secretary C.O.S.; Jessie M. Warburton, born 27 November 1880, married, Voluntary Social Work C.O.S.

So, by then it appears his acting career was over. I pass on the abbreviation C.O.S.

 

Edited 28 December , 2017 by HarryBrook

[Acknown]

Harry,

Many thanks for your hard work; how very interesting. A quick search makes the Charity Organisation Society a possibility. That gives me all I need on Warburton for my purposes. I guess he didn't become an acting household-word.

Acknown

[RaySearching]

There is an account of 2nd Lt Warburton's capture in 

The war behind the wire by John Lewis-Stemple

although I don,t know how accurate it is

 

following is a passage from the book found online

 

Second Lieutenant Ernest Warburton, 1/5 Sherwood Foresters, nearly got as far as the German parapet at Arras when he was hit by bomb splinters and fell into the wire. He lay there, unable to move, for twenty three hours, bullets whizzing overhead until dusk the next day when four German soldiers crawled out and carried me on a ...

 

Which can be found

Here

 

Ray

[pjwmacro]

A different Ernest Warburton - but if anyone has any info ref the following chap, I`d be very grateful:

 

1609 Cpl Ernest Warburton served with 22 Motor Machine Gun Battery in India from 1916 to 1919.  Direct entry into MMGS in 1915 so far as I am aware.  He can be found on the medal rolls, and has a MIC, but no service record found.  MIC gives address as Woodbank, 53 Mersey Rd, Rock Ferry, Liverpool.  Not managed to locate him on 1901 or 1911 census - so have no idea of DoB, other than presumably  between 1880 and 1900.

 

Any further info appreciated.

 

Regards, Paul

[Acknown]

Ray - I don't think I thanked you for your last post. Thank you! 

Acknown

[RaySearching]

20 hours ago, Acknown said:

Acknown

 

There seems to be varying accounts with which battalion Warburton served with

your opening post 15th Bn  various online sources suggest 1/5 bn   ( The War diary shows the 1/5th as being in billets on the 26/Oct /16) ?

 

To throw another one in the pot The regimental roll of honour of the Artist Rifles  have Warburton listed as 13th Bn

and his capture date as 6/10/16 ?

 

 

From his service number HERE

Warburton enlisted into the Artist Rifles in January 1915  (which fits with Warburton being a performer)

service number (3201) commissioned into the Notts and Derby Reg 2nd Lt 9/3/15

 

make of it as you wish

 

Ray

 

 

 

Edited 18 February , 2018 by RaySearching

[Acknown]

Ray,

Thank you. So, he joined the Artist Rifles then was commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters. The 13th was a UK-based reserve battalion; possibly a holding posting or for training. Then he joined his battalion in France.

I've found him in the 15th Battalion WD. On the night of 25 Oct 16, in the Arras area, he led a raid's bombing party: click here (Ancestry) and on successive pages. He went missing and, despite a search, could not be found.

Here is his Red Cross card: https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/347438/3/2/. The links on it  state that he was captured 26 Oct 16 (15th Battalion). In Mar 17 he was in a hospital at Verden an der Aller, and then was a prisoner at various camps. Having been an internee at Murren from 27 Nov 17, he was repatriated, undoubtedly because of his injuries, and reached London on 24 Mar 18. 

Many thanks for reinvigorating my research.

Acknown

 

[RaySearching]

As an aside 

Here is his London Gazette Entry 2nd Lieut

 

Cannot see his promotion to full Lieutenant in the Gazette

it will be there somewhere just cannot find it

 

Ray