Basic Details
Surname
Shorey
Forenames
Ernest James
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
200663
Notes
The Roll lists his address as Garton End. (He was strangely omitted from the 1994 version of the Roll).

CWGC records that Private Ernest James Shorey, 200663, died on 19/4/1917 serving in 1st/4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Panel 40 of Jerusalem Memorial in Israel and Palestine.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died 'on or since' 19/4/1917; his widow Maud was his legatee.
On the 1921 Census his widow Maud was living in Peterborough with their 3 children.

(On the 1911 census Ernest, his wife Maud and their 2 children were living at 2 Eldon Road, Wood Green, Middlesex; Ernest stated he was 27 and was born in Wood Green. His marriage to Maud Smith on 16/12/1906 was recorded in the registers of St Silas' Church, Clerkenwell, Islington, which listed Ernest's father as being William John Shorey. Ernest James Shorey's birth was registered in Edmonton District in 1883).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Northants
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
4th
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Pte
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Not stated on memorial
Country of burial
Not stated on memorial
Cemetery
Not stated on memorial
Year of death
1917
Month of death
April
Day of death
19
Manner of death as stated
'Reported missing, believed killed in action 19th April 1917'
Manner of death reference
Missing