William Ambrose

Story:
William Ambrose was born at Woodcutts, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, on 24 Mar 1898 the son of William Ambrose and Hannah Kate Ambrose (nee Tiller).  By 1901 the family had moved to 19 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset, and later to 2 Tanyard Villas, Shaftesbury.  By 1911 William was working as a School Outfitters Errand Boy.  He had enlisted on 26 May 1916 and joined the Royal Marines Light Infantry as a Private (Service No. 1891/S).  It is known he had served on HMS Commonwealth during his service but not the actual theatre of war.   On his discharge he was awarded the Victory and British War Medals.  By the 1921 Census he was living with his parents in Shaftesbury working as a Postman.  Regrettably he died at the early age of 27 years on 22 Oct 1925 in the Salisbury Infirmary, Salisbury, Wiltshire.