Ernest Brosinovich

Lance Corporal Eric Louis Ernest Brosinovich, who served as Eric Ernest, was a soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 27 July 1900, in Odessa, in the Russian Empire, the son of Ernest Victor and Edith Lucy Brosinovich (née Wagstaff)."Россия, Рождения и крещения, 1755-1917," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT8T-LMZ : accessed 15 September 2015), Eric Louis Ernest Brosinovich, 27 Jul 1900; citing Odessa, Russia, reference p29 no433; FHL microfilm 1,494,318. His heritage was cosmopolitan: his English-born father was of Austrian and English parentage, while his mother, also born in Odessa, was of English and Swiss descent.Ancestry.co.uk.Who's who, Volume 65; Volume 1. By the time of the 1911 Census, Brosinovich had been placed in the London Orphan Asylum.
Brosinovich died on 16 May 1917, during the Arras Offensive, while serving on the Western Front with the 8th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment. His age of just 16 was below the minimum age requirement of 19 for overseas service.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Arras Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Brosinovich, Ernest Louis Eric, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
Category:1900 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:Russian military personnel
Category:Ukrainian military personnel
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:British people of Ukrainian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Arras Memorial
Category:Lance Corporals