Private Ernest Bryan

Army Number: 49382

Battalion: 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Newark, Nottinghamshire. Son of John Henry and Sarah Ann Bryan, of 94 Beacon Hill Road, Newark. Husband of Daisy Bryan, of 45, Bottom Row, Beacon Hill, Newark. He was a general labourer prior to enlisting at Newark. He died of wounds, 2nd November 1917, aged 31.

Buried : Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France. Plot 4. Row E. Grave 77.

Private Ernest Bryan is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church Borough of Newark Roll of Honour, Newark, Nottinghamshire. 
St. Mary’s Church Parishioners War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire. 
Newark Cemetery War memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother  Private Fred Bryan 2146, 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.