Ernest Holland

Remembered with Honour in the Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont, FranceBritish War Medal and Allied Victory Medal.

Ernest Holland.

Personal Details:

Born in Malpas in 1880.

Second son of Thomas and Martha Holland of 13 Winstanley Road, New Ferry, Cheshire.

The 1901 census, records that Ernest had moved to the Wirral.

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Military Details:

Regiment:           1st/5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment.

Rank:                 Private.

Serial Number:   202124.

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Record of Death:

Killed in action in Belgium on 30th August 1918. Aged 38.

Commemorated in Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont, France VII.J.17

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Medals and Awards:

Ernest was awarded the Campaign Medals (British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal).

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Further information:

1871 census records the family living in Lower Wych, and the 1881 census records that they were then living at Overton Heath

By the time of the 1901 census, Ernest had moved to the Wirral.

All the Holland children were born in Malpas, before the family moved to New Ferry sometime between 1891 and 1901.

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Note*

Ernest is not currently recorded on the Malpas War Memorial or any other UK civic memorial.

It is suggested that this is because the family moved away from the village prior to WW1 and were not associated with the local community at New Ferry.