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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
Ernest Ingram was the son of William Maria Ingram and lived in Halesowen. He attended Hasbury school and volunteered for the Staffords. He joined the 1st Battalion who were very active in the 1916 Battle of the Somme, capturing Mametz on the first day of the 1st July. In the Spring of 1917 the Staffords were in the follow-up of the German withdrawal to the newly built Hindenburg Line. An Australian attack at Bullecourt in April had produced a breach and the Staffords were in the next attack on the 12th May. Bullecourt was captured but at considerable cost. Private Ernest Ingram was among those killed in action. He was 22 years of age and is commemorated on the Arras, Halesowen and Hasbury school Memorials.
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