Ernest Alfred Messenger

   Cause of his death was Broncho Pneumonia.

  General Notes:

http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=617329

of 8 Gibbon Road, Kingston, Surrey 1914
(E.W. Messenger at this address 1974)
Corporal with Inland Water Transport,
Royal Engineers during 1914-1918 War
died 29 Jan 1919, aged 43
at Dunkirk (of pneumonia)
memorial at Teddington Cemetery

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census UK: with a census age of 5, 1881, Tide End Cottage, Ferry Road, Teddington, Middlesex, England. ⁴

• Census UK: with a census age of 15, 1891, 5 Waldegrave Avenue, Teddington, Middlesex, England. ⁵

• Census UK: gas stoker with census age of 25, 1901, 23 Cowleaze Road, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England. ⁶

• Military Service - World War I: 109950 aged 40 waterman married - seaman inland waterways section royal engineers, 20 Sep 1915, 8 Gibbon Road, Kingston On Thames, Surrey, England. ³

• Cemetery Position, Jan 1919, Teddington Cemetery, Teddington, Middlesex, England. ⁷

Ernest married Ada Jane Powney, daughter of William Powney and Jane Johnson, on 2 Jun 1896 in Register Officer, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England.¹ (Ada Jane Powney was born about Jun 1878 in New Hampton, Middlesex, England ⁸ and died after May 1922.)