This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 E. A. Pyle (Ernest Albert Pyle) (Pyle, Ernest Albert) Service no G/81351 Private, Royal Fusiliers, 23rd Battalion; formerly 5505, Middlesex Regiment Killed in action on 19 March 1918, aged 31 Born in Tottenham; enlisted in Lambeth; lived in Brixton CWGC: "Husband of Ellen Pyle, of 11a Morat Street, Stockwell, London." Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France and at Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9  PYLE, ERNEST ALBERT, Private, No 81351, (--) Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), 3rd s. of Richard Pyle, of 1, Henry Road, South Tottenham, N., by his wife, Sarah Jane; and brother to Private H. G. Pyle (q.v.); b. Tottenham, N.; educ. Bramar Road there ; enlisted in 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action 19 March 1918. Information from the censuses Ernest Albert Pyle, 23 in 1911, was a house painter working on the Holland Estate. Like his wife, Ellen Pyle, 25, he was born in South Tottenham. They had a son, Ernest Richard Pyle, 2, born in Islington, north London. The family lived at 59a Morat Street. Ernest's father Richard Pyle, 47 in 1901, was a painter, born in Islington; his mother Sarah Pyle, 48, was from Bristol. Ernest had at least four siblings. |
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Ernest Edward Pyle |