Private Ernest Bills

Army Number: 17541

Battalion: 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal Born and lived at Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Catherine Hill (formerly Bills), of 5, Hardwick Street, Sutton-In-Ashfield. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He went to France 29th August 1915 and was killed in action, 27th June 1917, age 29, by German shellfire whilst serving in the trenches near Outerdom, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.

Private Ernest Bills is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St, Mary Magdalen Church War Memorial, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-In-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.