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Serjeant Ernest Tabrett
Hampshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Brother of Arthur John Tabrett


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Birth:
 
1887 Upchurch
Kent, England
Death:
 Apr. 17, 1918 France & Flanders
Memorial:
Ploegsteert Memorial (CWGC) 
Comines-Warneton
Hainaut, Belgium
Plot: Panel 6



Casualty of the Great War Ernest Tabrett was the son of George Tabrett and his wife Margaret Stokes. He was born in Upchurch, Kent in about 1887. He was one of several siblings which included Eliza, Phebe, Rhonda, Frank, Clara, Charles, Ellen, Samuel and Arthur John Tabrett.

Earnest was the husband of Emily Davis whom he married in 1915 in Medway, Kent. Earnest's brother Samuel Tabrett also perished in the Great War. He was killed in action on June 30, 1915. Another brother Arthur John Tabrett would perish in the 1929 Gillingham Park Fete Tragedy, also a hero who gave his life freely in duty within the fire service.

UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 about Ernest Tabrett

Name: Ernest Tabrett
Birth Place: Upchurch, Kent
Residence: Gillingham, Kent
Death Date: 17 Apr 1918
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Chatham, Kent
Rank: A/Sergeant
Regiment: Hampshire Regiment
Battalion: 2nd Battalion
Number: 7927
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

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Photo of The Ploegsteert Memorial by World War One Battlefields
Inscription photo provided by Mick McCann of  British War Grave Photographs

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