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Ernest Burgess was born in Beverley 7 May 1897 and baptised 2 Jun 1897 at St Mary’s Church. Ernest was the youngest of five sons born to Charles Burgess, originally from Bermondsey, and Fanny Burgess, nee Skinner. They also had eight daughters. The family lived at 8 Eastgate, Beverley. Charles worked as a tanner’s labourer at a local tannery, later becoming a hide splitter. After the war he had a fish and chip shop at 13 Eastgate on the corner of Trinity Lane, categorised in a trade directory as “a fried fish dealer”.
Ernest served as a driver in the Royal Field Artillery, the driver was responsible for leading the horses employed to move field guns and he would have been deployed behind the frontlines but where precisely he served is not known. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals and possibly the 1915 Star.
After the war Ernest moved to Hull, he married at St John’s Newington on 3 Sep1922 to Ada Robinson, born in 1899. His address at this time is given as Glasgow Street in the west of Hull. They had three children, Ernest junior borm 30 Nov 1922 became a civil servant, Keith born 1929 and Barry born 1938. Ernest worked as a hairdresser and the family lived over the premises at 72 Newland Avenue in Hull. Ernest died in Hull in 1972 at the age of 75. Ada died in Beverley in 1979.
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