Ernest Edgar Figgins

This name is on the Old Manorians memorial, Clapham

Private, Hampshire Regiment, 1/4th Battalion

Service no. 2639

Killed in action on 18 December 1915, aged 20

CWGC: "Son of Robert Henry Edgar Figgins, of 121, Roderhurst Rd., Clapham, London, and the late Rosabelle Figgins. Formerly of Manor House School, Clapham."

Born in Bayswater, Middlesex; lived in Clapham; enlisted in Portsmouth

Remembered at Kut War Cemetery, Iraq

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Ernest Edgar Figgins was a 15-year-old schoolboy living at 168 Elms Road, Clapham with his father, Robert Edgar Figgins, a 41-year-old widower working as a "secretary (jewellery and silversmith)". Robert's sister, Alberta Emma Figgins, 36, lived with the family and is described as the "housekeeper". Two siblings are on the census:

Dorothy Rosa May Figgins, 14, at school

Harold Herbert Figgins, 12, at school

Lucy Ellen Avenell, 23, a single domestic servant from Teddington, lived with the family.