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Ernest Charles Lailey was living at Station Road Oxted Surrey and worked as a carpenter. He enlisted with the 1st Home Counties FA TA on the 21st January 1915. He disembarked from Southampton on the 23rd January 1917 and arrived at Le Havre France on the 24th January 1917. He served as a stretcher bearer with 2/1st Home Counties FA with the 58th London Division. On the 17th April 1918 he was badly gassed at Villers Brettoneux near Amiens rescuing soldiers from cellars of the buildings. He remained at duty. In the folloiwng weeks Ernest was to suffer complications from being gassed such as severe bronchitis and defective eyesight and spent 74 days in hospital and was eventually sent to the Vale Hospital in Sheffield. He received a disablility pension and became a master cabinet maker!
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