Lance Corporal Ernest Fidds

Army Number: 6129

Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Nottingham and lived at Duke Street, Nottingham. Son of Walter and Lucy Fidds, of 55, Thorneywood Mount, Nottingham. Husband of Hannah Fidds, of 17 Duke Street, Radford, Nottingham. He was a lace factory hand prior to enlisting 22nd August 1914 at Nottingham. He went to France, 11th November 1914 with the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was admitted to No. 19 Field Ambulance with defective vision, 25th February 1915. He was transferred to Boulogne as a stretcher-bearer, 12th June 1915. He was posted to the 14th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 20th July 1916, the 11th entrenching Battalion, 3rd August 1916 and to the 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 3rd September 1916. He was appointed Lance Corporal 22nd February 1917 and was killed in action, 16th March 1917, whilst in the line near Hooge, Belgium.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission show surname as Fiddes

Buried: Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 6. Row C. Grave 2.