Ernest James Frude
Item
Title
Ernest James Frude
Who?
Ernest James Frude
Item(s)
Photograph of Ernest
Ernest's war medals (1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal)
Ernest's 'Death Penny'
Ernest's war medals (1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal)
Ernest's 'Death Penny'
Story
Ernest James Frude fought with the 1/4th Hampshire Regiment in Mesopotamia from 1914. He was injured in the knee, and was sent to recuperate in England and Ireland while the Hampshires went to India. He was then assigned to the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. He was sent to the Western Front, where he was eventually killed by an explosive shell on the 14th April 1918 near Ploegsteert in Belgium. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Memorial to the Missing in Ploegsteert, Basingstoke War Memorial Park and in St Michael’s Church, Basingstoke.
When?
1914-18
Where?
Mesopotamia, Ploegsteert
Contributor
Maxine Sewell
Collection Day
Gosport Roadshow, 13/2/2019
This item was submitted on February 25, 2019