WELLS, ERNEST. Acting Lance Corporal. 307676. 1st/8th Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Own, West Yorkshire Regiment. (Leeds Rifles)
Entitled to the British War and Victory Medals.
Ernest Wells was killed in action on October 9th. 1917 at the Belle Vue Spur during the Third Battle of Ypres, and lies in an unknown grave he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele, West Flanders, Belgium. Panels 42-47 or 162.
Born in Anderby, he enlisted at Lincoln.
The 1901 census records Ernest aged 4, sister Hilda, and brothers George and Alfred, living with their parents Sarah and George Wells, a gardener, of Dashwood Road, Alford.
The 1911 census records Ernest 14, sisters Edith, Dolly and Iley, and brothers George Henry and Alford John, their parents Sarah and George Wells, a gardener, of Parsons Lane, Alford.
His soldiers’ effects £1-4-3d, war gratuity £7-10s and pension were paid to his father George.
Remembered with honour on the Alford War Memorial in the grounds of St Wilfrid’s Church.
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