Ernest William Claridge was born in 1887 in Chatteris, Cambs, the elder of the two children of Samuel & Kate (nee Burrows). By 1891 the family had moved to St Ives, across the county border in Huntingdonshire and the 1901 census showed the fourteen-year-old Ernest as a baker, living at the White Lion public house.
In 1907 Ernest married Grace King in St Ives and they begat five children in the town over the next ten years. Enlisted into the Middlesex regiment, 29th Battalion, he was transferred to the Labour Corps. He died on 6 November 1918 in the Military Hospital in Epsom, and was buried in St Ives Church Cemetery.
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