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ERNEST CHARLES BURT

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Surname: BURT
Forename: ERNEST CHARLES
Initials: E C
Date of Birth 1880
Place of BirthRingwood (Shirley near Sopley)
Place of Birth SourceArmy Service Record
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Family (parents and grandparents)Son of Sidney and Cecilia BURT. FreeBMD Records his birth registration as/at Christchurch District.
Spouse Name Victories Lucy RICKETTS married Ernest Charles BURT at Wimborne Minster Church on 23rd December 1903.
NotesErnest Burt is one of 21 members of the armed forces included in David and Dorothy Clarke’s book ‘A Vision of Faith’ (for St. Leonard’s and St. Ives) and listed living at St. Ives in the October 1914 Christchurch Parish Magazine. Christchurch being the Ecclesiastical Parish for St Leonard’s and St. Ives until the 1920’s.
Regiment at call-upHampshire Regiment
Regiment at dischargeRoyal Engineers
Rank at call-upPrivate
Service no at call-up5412
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Other service detailsPrior to WW1 Ernest Charles BURT had enlisted in the Hampshire Regiment as a private.
Other rankLance Corporal
Other service no2639
Service factsErnest joined Hampshire Regiment in 1898 and within a year he joined the Royal Engineers. He fought in the Boer War and continued in the reserves, joining WW1 in the R.E,, where in December 1915 he was medically retired from the R.E.
Age at death61
Date of death 1941
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Place of deathBlandford
Location of graveWitchampton
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