Private 18817 Ernest MOTT

Private 18817 Ernest Mott{gallery}Pte E Mott{/gallery}6th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment
Killed in action in the First Battle (Siege) of Kut, Al Amara Iraq, Mesopotamia, 5th April 1916

• Commemorated: Basra Memorial, Basra, Iraq. Panel 23
  
• Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of George and Julia Mott
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Mott
• Basra Memorial
• South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born c1898 at Reading, Berks
  
• Lived at Whitestone Farm, Nuneaton [1915]
  
• Employed as a labourer [1915]
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton 28 Apr 1915. Arrived in France 4 November 1915 later posted to Basra, Persian Gulf 5 Apr 1916