Private Ernest Sanders​

Army Number: 19017

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Ernest was born in 1897 and was the last child of Herbert and Jane Sanders. They baptised him at St James church in Longton. At the age of 14 in 1911 he was living with his parents and working as a Potters Placer. Around the time of the outbreak of World War One, he moved to 13 Pitt Street with his parents. Son of Herbert and Jane Sanders, of 13, Pitt St., Sandfold Hill, Longton. He enlisted at Longton, and went to Gallipoli on 1st July 1915, then went to France in July 1916 and was killed in action, on 22nd September 1916, aged 18, by German shellfire whilst serving in Constance Trench, South of Thiepval, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Ernest Sanders Memorial Plaque
Photograph of memorial plaque kindly submitted by Lindsey Bates.

Buried: Ovillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1, Row C. Grave 14.

Ovillers Military Cemetery, France.
Private Ernest Sanders grave

Private Ernest Sanders is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Longton War Memorial, Longton, Staffordshire. 

Longton War Memorial
Longton War Memorial.
Photograph kindly submitted by Lindsey Bates

His brother Private Bernard Sanders 12th Battalion Royal Fusiliers also fell in the Great War.