https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/43314/archive/files/69374b06c4c0a76f5108979d877b79b0.png?Expires=1787788800&Signature=d0WfU%7E5Rvdhw9Y3TwgymR3wdRYgfj%7EkHO0udUx7j90zJg61LnxnXqQGbj7PvTMAVaekxQGJeFbQ12e8FV8M8o4A07SLA2rmreiXFyXQosV4JxmLD7BpcL0PT-W8juEDeKjR4NleKE-5xuoc%7EiFbsEL4nlbmPQVfSmvhvK9d8zHmAZc5sITRyGroCwIs5QeFWbfwS3Z-YcWoUypVLA-8NpNmkYHqJ9Ui557Zcahbspl2dgEO9TWJKE02kVRkxxeuT1dElDCk%7EPAdsFBRoNBaVNh850oG4pgtypimyzI8rU5IPFbRwTrNnnr1oQJSvhQS3KGR8C9th0ZnuwjSvCqzt%7EQ__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 1be1aeeb9f3a5a7ba06eb1718d1f7691 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War and Remembrance Subject The topic of the resource As with most communities the cost of war was high. Here we remember the fallen and their stories. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Oakridge History Group Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Earnest Wear Description An account of the resource 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. <br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br /> He has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate, Ypres. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Oakridge History Group Type The nature or genre of the resource Static Image Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grace Cooke