Private Ernest Hargreaves MSM
528294 Royal Army Medical Corps

Ernest (b.1889) left Burnley before the war - he was a student and then academic staff in London, and he wouldn't be on the absent voters list. He was awarded the MSM for work in combating mosquitoes (and malaria) while in the RAMC in Taranto, Italy. Harry served in northern France. In the 1920s Ernest and Harry became Government Entomologists for Sierra Leone and Uganda respectively. They had an elder brother Frank who worked during WW1 as a chemist in munitions manufacture in Scotland. His MSM listing in the London Gazette 9.12.1919 iss.31684 page 15444, gives him as from Burnley. He also survived the war.

They had an elder brother Frank who worked during WW1 as a chemist in munitions manufacture in Scotland.


Their parents left Lansdowne Street in 1930

(Courtesy of grandson Julian Hargreaves)