Military service
Service number:
709
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
February 25, 1892
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment:
December 14, 1914
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death:
July 1, 1916
Beaumont Hamel, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B. 39.
Additional information
Son of Jacob William and Jane Damerall (Cook) Chafe, of St. John's, Newfoundland. Brother of William, Hilda, George, Cyril. Isabel, Marjorie, Gladys, Ralph, Mary and John
Digital gallery of Private Ernest Leslie Chafe
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Photo of Ernest Chafe
PTE E.L. Chafe. C Coy 1st Bn Royal Newfoundland Regiment. Son of Jacob W. and Jane D. Chafe, of 140, Casey St., St. John's, Newfoundland. Photo submitted by his Great-Nephew WO I.B. Cowan, RCEME. Canadian Army -
Letter
A letter home before the Battle of Beaumont Hamel. -
Cemetery
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Grave Marker
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Memorial
In memory of the men and women from Newfoundland who went away to war and did not come home. From the Rooms Archives and Museum St Johns Newfoundland. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ERNEST LESLIE CHAFE
In memory of the men and women from Newfoundland who went away to war and did not come home. From the Rooms Archives and Museum St Johns Newfoundland. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
In memory of the men and women from Newfoundland who went away to war and did not come home. From the Rooms Archives and Museum St Johns Newfoundland. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of ERNEST LESLIE CHAFE
In memory of the men and women from Newfoundland who went away to war and did not come home. From the Rooms Archives and Museum St Johns Newfoundland. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Leslie Chafe
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Leslie Chafe
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Leslie Chafe
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Leslie Chafe
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Leslie Chafe
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Leslie Chafe
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Leslie Chafe
Digital gallery of
Private Ernest Leslie Chafe
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 24 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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