DEMPSEY E R

DEMPSEY, Ernest Anthony

Ernest Anthony DEMPSEY

Regiment: Royal Air Force

Rank: Sergeant – Wireless Operator/ Air Gunner

Died: 6 April 1944

Aged: 21

Buried/ Memorial: Silloth Holme Low, UK

Address: 65 Halkyn Road, Newton

Cheshire Observer 15 April 1944

SERGT. A.E. DEMPSEY KILLED IN ACTION

“Mrs. Sheila Dempsey, of 65 Halkyn Road, Newton, Chester, has received notification that her husband, Sgt. Ernest Anthony Dempsey, R.A.F., has been killed in action. A native of Whitley Bay, where he was educated, Sgt. Dempsey worked for three years for the L.M.S. Railway Co. and enlisted in the R.A.F. two years ago. Aged 21, he was the son of Mr and Mrs John Dempsey of Whitley Bay and London, and had been married only three months.”