Profile: Ernest Preshous

Pioneer Sapper Ernest Preshous (No: 211946)


Date of Birth:

Place of Birth:

Hamlet:

Village: Stanhope

Parish: Stanhope

Enlisted: Thursday, November 25, 1915, Bishop Auckland (aged 38)

Regiment: Royal Engineers

Battalion: Signel Service

Conflict: First World War

War Record: Yes

Discharge Status:

Next of Kin: Husband of Mary Preshous of Front Street, Stanhope


Notes

Occupation on enlistment - Clerk - Embodied to Egyptian Exp Force 19/6/1917 = Qualified as a proficient Signelman 1/2/1918 with associated increase in pay from 6d per day to 1s per day