Ernest Ehlers

Private Ernest Albert Victor Ehlers was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1897, at Marylebone, the son of German-born gardener Christian William and Sarah Ehlers (née Conner), an upholstress of London. At the time of the 1911 census, the Ehlers' family were residing at 51 Cardington Street, Hampstead Road.
Ehlers died on 15 August 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, while serving on the Western Front with the 1/3rd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regiment, attached from the 1st Battalion.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Menin Gate Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Ehlers, Ernest Albert Victor , cwgc.org. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
Category:1897 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Menin Gate Memorial
Category:Privates