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Ernest was born in Beverley in 1892, the son of Thomas Isaac Cattle, a local journeyman baker, and Maria (nee Redhead) from Fulham, London. Ernest was brought up at 2 Providence Row (later Wilbert Terrace), Wilbert Lane in Beverley. By 1911 Ernest was an errand boy for a "general carrier". His mother had died in 1903. Ernest married Florence May Nelson at Beverley Register Office in 1914, their aon Thomas W was born on 2 Oct 1914.
Ernest became a Private in the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, they saw action on the Somme in 1916, at Arras and Passchendaele in 1917, at St Quentin and Bapaume in spring 1918, at Amiens and the advance on the Hindenburg Line in the autumn of 1918. On 4 Sep 1918 he was involved in an action in the vicinity of Rocquigny, near Arras to secure a canal crossing. Ernest was killed and has no known grave. Ernest is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial in the Pas-de-Calais, France. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals. He is not remembered on Beverley's Hengate War Memorial but does appear on the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster.
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