For more information about Ernest Strudwick please visit: Lancing War Memorial: STRUDWICK Ernest
Gunner 374377 Ernest Strudwick of the 173rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. Ernest was killed in Action on Thursday 21st March 1918 aged 32 years. A casualty of the German Spring Offensive, killed by a shell and buried where he fell, commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing. Ernest lived in Penhill Road Lancing. He married Rose Grinyer and they had 4 children. He worked as a garden labourer until outbreak of war, joined the staff at Southern Railway Carriage Works as a Lifter.
