SHARDLOW Ernest

Expected home shortly on furlough from the Front, Crpl Ernest Shardlow, the adopted son of Mrs Scothern , of Station Road, Morton, was killed in action on September 19th. Aged 19, he was wounded a short time previously . Joining the Army in 1914 , he served through the Dardanelles campaign , and was also in Egypt prior to going to France.

Derbyshire Times: 20th October 1917 p8.

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