254747 Cpl. Ernest Cowell British Army 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment from:Grangetown, Middlesbrough (d.7th June 1917) My Gt Grandad, Corporal Ernest Cowell, died at the age of 33 in battle in Flanders. Ernest was awarded the Victory, British and 15 Star Medals, and he is honoured in the Memorial on the Menin Gate, Ypres.
He left my Gt Grandma Ethel a widow, and 4 children back home, the eldest being 13 and the youngest 4yrs old, living in Laing Street, Grangetown, Middlesbrough. As a family we have always been told that Ernest Cowell is honoured on the Cenotaph in Grangetown, Middlesbrough, and he died in the war. Every year we were taken to the Cenotaph to commemorate his and other fallen heroes, the sacrifice they gave for us. An ultimate sacrifice for Ernest, never to have more children, never see his children or wife grow old, never to see grandchildren.
We still attend the service each year. The dignitaries who attend grows smaller, but the people of Grangetown and St Hilda's Church still remember and attend, to pay their respects to the men of Grangetown who died.
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