Ivor Anderson Posted 21 August Share Posted 21 August (edited) Cpl. Ernest Charles Simmonds MM, DM2/097466 RASC Went to France 29 Sept. 1915 with 14th Div. Ambulance Convoy, RASC. Served as a motorcycle dispatch rider for 18 months. Promoted Cpl. after 6 months. Listed in the LG 11 Nov 1916 for a retrospective MM award earned with 14th Div Ambulance Convoy, RASC: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29780/supplement/9836 Later died from injuries sustained from being crushed against a wall by a reversing lorry on 9 Feb 1917. Then serving with RASC Mec Transport, att'd 186 Siege Battery Ammunition Column. Buried Maroc Cemetery I.N.3. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/523590/ernest-charles-simmonds/ MM index card from TNA - schedule no. 33314: Edited 21 August by Ivor Anderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Anderson Posted 21 August Author Share Posted 21 August Death reported in the Surrey Advertiser 19 Feb 1917 (BNA): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan1892 Posted 21 August Share Posted 21 August Image courtesy of Find a Grave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Anderson Posted 21 August Author Share Posted 21 August (edited) Thanks Alan! A sad end for a brave man. His MM seems to have been from despatch riding under fire. He seems to have been engaged in riding to report numbers of wounded awaiting transfer from advance dressing stations/field ambulance posts (14th MAC war diary at TNA): Edited 21 August by Ivor Anderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Anderson Posted 24 August Author Share Posted 24 August Born: Q3 1896 (2a 80) Guildford District Baptised: 3rd June 1896 - St John the Evangelist, Stoke-Next-Guilford (Address: Artillery Terrace) Parents: Charles Henry Simmonds (Polisher) & Emily 1901 – 19 Artillery Terrace, Stoke-next-Guilford – father ‘furniture decorater 1911 – 20 Artillery Terrace, Stoke-next-Guilford – father ‘gilder & polisher’. Educated Charlotteville School, then scholarship to the Grammar School, In OTC. Clerk in the Guildford Gas Co., then South Suburban Gas Co. Chorister in St. Saviour’s Church Choir. 1915 – June – enlisted RASC – trained as Driver Mechanic 1915 – 29 Sept. - Arrived in France with 14th MAC – promoted Corporal 6 months later. Was a dispatch rider with them for 18 months – until early 1917. MM listed in LG 11 Oct 1916 – for despatch riding round Field Ambulance stations c.Oct 1915. Schedule no. on MM index card 33314 Died: 9th Feb 1917, skull crushed against a wall in accident while directing a lorry Buried: Maroc Cemetery Plot I. Row N. Grave 13 1917 – 19 Feb. report on his service & death in the Surrey Advertiser. 1920 – parents still living at 20 Artillery Terrace – pension card - TNA: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Anderson Posted 31 August Author Share Posted 31 August 1911 – 20 Artillery Terrace, Stoke-next-Guilford – father ‘gilder & polisher’. Ancestry image: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 31 August Share Posted 31 August Lives of the First World War https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/4035684 Under stories: ECS: Featured in The Old Guildfordian, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Anderson Posted 1 September Author Share Posted 1 September 13 hours ago, charlie962 said: Featured in The Old Guildfordian, 2010 Thanks Charlie, Must try to follow that up. Ivor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Anderson Posted 28 September Author Share Posted 28 September (edited) Many thanks to Michelle Young for taking this recent photo at Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay : https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/523590/ernest-charles-simmonds/ Edited 28 September by Ivor Anderson Additional Info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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