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| Keywords: people Ernest Cannell, younger brother of William Robert Cannell, in uniform of Royal Engineers during WW1. He was probably numbered 288 (renumbered 438002 in 1917), which would make him one of the original members of 427th (1/1st East Lancashire) Field Company since 1908. He went to Egypt in September 1914 and would have served at Gallipoli in 1915 and in France in 1917-18. He survived the war, ending up with the rank of Acting 2nd Corporal. Ernest's nephew (also Ernest, but known as Jimmie) served in the same unit in WW2 (by then renumbered 200th Field Company) and was evacuated from Dunkirk in May 1940. Ernest Cannell, younger brother of William Robert Cannell, in uniform of Royal Engineers during WW1. He was probably numbered 288 (renumbered 438002 in 1917), which would make him one of the original members of 427th (1/1st East Lancashire) Field Company since 1908. He went to Egypt in September 1914 and would have served at Gallipoli in 1915 and in France in 1917-18. He survived the war, ending up with the rank of Acting 2nd Corporal. Ernest's nephew (also Ernest, but known as Jimmie) served in the same unit in WW2 (by then renumbered 200th Field Company) and was evacuated from Dunkirk in May 1940. | ||||
