Ernest Moyse

A Signalman with 56 Infantry Brigade, Ernest died on 14 June 1944, aged 19.

Ernest was born at Lowestoft on 1 July 1924, a son of John Henry and Millicent Moyse. In 1939 his family lived at Fairfields, London Road, Pakefield, and Ernest was a grocer’s errand boy.  

Ernest was a signaller with the 56th Infantry Brigade and would have landed at Normandy on D-Day. On 7 June his unit was involving in liberating Bayeux. Ernest was wounded, date unknown, and died of his wounds on 14 June. He was buried at St. Vigor-le-Grand and in March 1945 he was reburied at Bayeux War Cemetery.