WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| Private Ernest Pask Derry | The Leicester Regiment | born 1900 | |
| Medal roll | None found as he served in the Army of Occupation after the war had
finished No service/pension records exist on Ancestry |
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| Roll of Honour | The Leicester Regiment, Army of Occupation | ||
| Long Long Trail | After the Armistice, 6th Division, including the 1st Battalion
Leicester Regiment, were selected to join the occupation force and they
moved into Germany in mid-December 1918, being based at Bruehl by Christmas
1918. By the end of the Great War, Britain faced greater “peacetime” military commitments than when she entered it in 1914. There were forces to be maintained in the Army of Occupation in Germany; in Palestine; in North Russia; in the garrisons of Empire; in Afghanistan. Yet she also needed to demobilise the Great War army as quickly as possible, releasing men to get the mines, factories and economy working again, and to deliver the commitment that men had enlisted “for the duration of the war”. Re-enlistment was encouraged by the short-term offer of a considerable financial incentive. It may be that, being just 18 and having enlisted just before the end of the war, Ernest was one of those offered a place in the Army of occupation. |
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Family history etc
| Private Ernest Pask Derry | |||
| 1899 | Born Bingham14th Nov 1899 | ||
| Census 1901 | Living on Grantham Rd., Bingham with: Father: John Derry, b. 1867 Bingham Mother: Harriett (neé Pask), b. 1866 Stapleford, Lincs, Siblings: John J, b. 1897 Bingham Thomas William b.1898 Bingham AND Visitor: Sarah P Derry, b. 1861 Stapleford, Lincs |
Painter nurse domestic |
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| Census 1911 | Living on Grantham Rd. Bingham with: Father: John Derry Mother: Harriett Siblings: John Joseph Thomas William Charles Samuel, b. 1903 Bingham Arthur Edwin, b.1904 Bingham Frederick Edgar, b.1907 Bingham |
House Painter junior clerk, lawyer’s office |
Brother Thomas William served in WW1. Click on name to learn more. |
| Census 1911 [Pitchford family] |
Living at Sewage Farm, Easthorpe, Southwell John Pitchford, widower, b. 1863 Southwell Children: Emma, b. 1897 Gladys, b 1904 John, b. 1904 Winifred, b 1902 |
Manager, Sewage Farm Housekeeper |
Winifred married Ernest in 1926 – see below |
| Electoral Roll | 1925 Stapleford: Ernest Pask Derry 1926 – no record 1927-8, Ernest Pask Derry: North Lane, Carlton-le-Moorland 1929-31: Ernest Pask Derry and Winifred: North Lane, Carlton–le-Moorland |
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| 1926 FREEBMD | Married Winifred Pitchford 7th July 1926 in Bingham Children: Ernest Bertie, b. Hook Norton, Banbury 8th July 1926 Frederick Newark Jun1928 Winnifred B Newark Mar 1932 |
Winifred, age 24, was from St Mary the Virgin parish, Southwell;
Her father, John, was a labourer and the marriage was celebrated by the
Rector of Southwell. We have not yet discovered what led to Ernest B being born in Hook Norton. Ernest Pask Derry reported the birth and gave his address as Carlton le Moorland, Lincolnshire. His occupation was journeyman joiner. It is just possible [mother] Winifred had a distant family connection to the Banbury area as there was an Elizabeth Pitchford, a female servant, in Cropredy in 1841. |
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| 1939 | Winifred Derry died Mar qtr 1939 North Kesteven, Lincolnshire | Birth year 1903 | |
| 1939 Register | 3 North Lane, North Kesteven, Lincs: Ernest P Derry, b. 16 Nov 1899, widowed Ernest B Derry, b. 8 Jul 1926, single Two closed records Esther Mary Pitchford (later Pacey), b. 24 Apr 1916, single |
Joiner, wheelwright, Paint section leader At School Frederick and Winnifred Housekeeper |
Special constable Presumably sister-in-law. |
| Feb 1989 | Died Lincoln aged 89 | ||