Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Saturday 16 September
1916
More Casualties in the Royal Irish Rifles.
The list of casualties in the Jersey Contingent which
we have published during the last few days and from
names which still continue to come through show that
the gallant Jerseys were in the thick of the fighting
in the Great Push. One of the injured is Corporal Ernest
Louis of the Machine Gun Section Royal Irish Rifles
who has been wounded in the face and is now at Rouen
General Hospital.
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Thursday 31 May 1917
Roll of Honour. The parents of Corporal
E Louis of the Jersey Company 7th Battalion Royal Irish
Rifles have received a letter from Lieutenant Colonel
Francis, Officer Commanding the Battalion, stating that
the Corporal was killed on the night of 22 May during
a raid on the enemy trenches.
The Colonel states "He was one
of the first to get into the trench but one of the enemy
threw a bomb which burst close to him and killed him
instantaneously. His body was brought back to our lines
and buried by the Reverend Father Doyle, who had given
him Absolution before he went out. Corporal Louis had
been with us since we came to France and was one of
the finest men in the Battalion, he always volunteered
for every raid or dangerous enterprise".
The Officer in charge of the party has
written of him
"His high spirits and cheerfulness
during the preparation for the raid undoubtedly helped
to strengthen the already high morale of the party I
had the honour to lead. Such a man is so great a loss
to us all that we can in a measure sympathise with his
family".
The late NCO, who formerly served in the
East Battalion, was only 20 and was held in the highest
respect by a number of friends and acquaintances here
and to these and the bereaved family we tender our heartfelt
sympathy.
