Ernest Henry Ruffles

A Lance Corporal with 15th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Battalion, Ernest died on 7th of October 1918 aged 19. 

Ernest was born at Lowestoft in 1898, a son of Ernest and Harriet Ruffles. In 1901 his family lived at 30 Lovewell Road and by 1911 they were living at 70 Lovewell Road.

Ernest enlisted in the Army at Lowestoft. He joined the Suffolk Regiment, service number 2300, and was posted to the 1st Battalion in France. Later he was posted to the 15th Battalion, with service number 320306. 

There is no official record to show when, where, or how, Ernest was wounded, but it is possibly that it was on either 4 or 5 October. He was taken to one of the Casualty Clearing Stations in the Lapugnoy and Lozinghem area, where he died of wounds.