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Ernest was born in Beverley the 16 Jul 1893 and baptised at St Mary’s Church the 27 1893, the son of John Robert Appleton and Isabella (nee Wharton), who married in Driffield in 1885. Robert was a clerk and registrar at County Hall. Ernest was brought up on Mill Lane then Norton Street, Landress Lane and 23 Grayburn Lane, Beverley. He worked as an errand boy after leaving school, then as a brewer’s clerk. From 1908-1909 he was a member of the Church Lads’ Brigade but “dismissed for bad behaviour” and being an alleged ringleader of miscreants. In 1911 and 1913 he received fines for having been found gambling on the Westwood.
Ernest enlisted on 7 Nov 1914 and joined the Yorkshire Regiment as a Private, however, his medal cards indicate that he served as a Private in the Lincolnshire Regiment, almost certainly arriving overseas after 1916. Ernest was injured and transferred to lighter non-frontline duties with the Labour Corps. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
Ernest returned and worked as a house painter. He married Margaret Landen in 1921 at the Beverley Register Office, their son Leonard, was born 1921, they went on to have nine children. In 1939 they were living at 7 Greenwood Avenue, Beverley. Ernest died in Oct 1949 aged 56. He was buried in Queensgate Cemetery, Beverley on 22 Oct 1949. Margaret died in 1963.
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