Gliddon, EFLN
(1898 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
10th November 1898
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1914 - 1916
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
165 Tulse Hill
REGIMENT
4th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment (Territorial Force)
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
5th June 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
19
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Gezaincourt
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt. II F 4
2nd Lieutenant Ernest Frank Leslie Nevill Gliddon
Ernest was born on November 10th 1898 in Shanklin, on the Isle of Wight; the son of John Gliddon, an employee of P&O, and his wife, Dorothy. Having begun his education at smaller schools in Eastbourne and Tiverton he subsequently came to Dulwich at the beginning of 1914, simultaneously with his younger brother, Jack. After leaving the College in the summer of 1916 he went to Ceylon, as it was then known, where he spent a year working as an apprentice on a tea planting estate.
Upon his return in 1917, having by now reached the legal minimum age to volunteer, and having already served as a member of the O.T.C. whilst at Dulwich as well as the Rifle Planters Corps whilst in Ceylon, he joined an O.T.C. at Wadham College, Oxford. In November that year he was granted a commission in the Dorsetshire Regiment, with whom he went on to proceed to France the following April. Less than two months later, on June 4th, he was wounded at Achiet-le-Grand, near Albert, dying of his wounds at a casualty clearing station the following morning.
