Earnest Wear
Title
Earnest Wear
Description
Ernest Wear was born on 27 January 1882 in Oakridge and baptised on 9 April 1882 in Oakridge Methodist Church. He was the son of Jesse Wear and Elizabeth Jane Gardiner.
Jesse Wear was a plasterer and lived at Fairview Cottage in Oakridge Lynch. Ernest enrolled in Oakridge School on 24 October 1887 and left on 17 November 1893. He went to work as a house decorator and married Annie Duffont in 1905 in Slad and by 1911 was living in Bospin Lane, Woodchester with his wife and son Ernest Jack.
He enlisted in Stroud, serving first with the Glosters before switching to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. He served as a private and was killed in action on 1 August 1917 in Belgium aged 28, leaving a widow and 1 children in Woodchester.
He has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate, Ypres.
Jesse Wear was a plasterer and lived at Fairview Cottage in Oakridge Lynch. Ernest enrolled in Oakridge School on 24 October 1887 and left on 17 November 1893. He went to work as a house decorator and married Annie Duffont in 1905 in Slad and by 1911 was living in Bospin Lane, Woodchester with his wife and son Ernest Jack.
He enlisted in Stroud, serving first with the Glosters before switching to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. He served as a private and was killed in action on 1 August 1917 in Belgium aged 28, leaving a widow and 1 children in Woodchester.
He has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate, Ypres.
Source
Oakridge History Group
Contributor
Grace Cooke
Files
Collection
Citation
“Earnest Wear,” Oakridge Archives, accessed May 5, 2024, https://oakridgearchives.omeka.net/items/show/168.