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Personal data

• Name ASKEW
• Initials E
• First name ERNEST
• Place of birth Shap
• Country Cumberland, England
• Family Son of George and Margaret Askew; three sisters, Margaret, Elizabeth and Ethel; a younger brother, George; resided for many years with John Hodgson of 40, Westmoreland Street, Skipton
• Profession Engine Cleaner with Midland Railway Co.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Skipton, Yorkshire
• Service number 2006
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st/6th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) A Coy.
• Division - Brigade 147th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 49th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 14 April 1915

Death

• Wounded 22 July, Canal Bank
• Type of wounds Died of shell wounds, back, side and hands in n° 10 CCS
• Date of death 23 July 1915
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery III - A - 18A

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