Private Ernest Barson

Army Number : 13084

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Sarah Ann Barson, of 14, Horace Avenue, Stapleford. Husband of Mary Barson, of 63, Nottingham Road, Stapleford. He was a lace twist hand prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He died, 7th August 1915, aged 28.of endocarditis (heart failure) at South Shields, 2nd Voluntary Aid Hospital, Count Durham.

Buried  Stapleford Cemetery, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Private Ernest Barson is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Helen’s Church War Memorial, Stapleford. Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham. 

His two brothers Private Neville Barson, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment and Private Alfred Barson, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.