Ernest Seaman
Lance-Corporal, 2nd Battalion. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- Register No.
- 1122 (Alf's numbering, from The Register of the Victoria Cross, 1997)
- Rank
- Lance-Corporal (register: Lance Corporal) all Lance-Corporals →
- Unit
- 2nd Battalion. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers all Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers VCs →
- Date of action
- 29 September 1918 on this day → all of 1918 →
- Conflict / campaign
- First World War
- London Gazette
- 15th November 1918 on this day → all of 1918 →
- Born
- 16th August 1893
- Died
- in action on 29th September 1918 at Terhand, Belgium
- Award
- Posthumous all posthumous VCs →
- Medal held by
- the Royal Army Service Corps HQ, Camberley
Digest of citation
Lance-Corporal Seamen showing great courage and initiative rushed forward with his Lewis gun, under extremely heavy fire, when the right flank of his company was held up by a post of enemy machine-guns. Single-handed, he engaged the position, captured two machine-guns and 12 prisoners, after killing an officer and two men. The same day, he charged under heavy fire, another enemy machine-gun post, capturing the gun. He was killed on this occasion
From Alf Askin's research notes
Reproduced as Alf wrote it, c. 2000–2005. Spelling and abbreviations are his own.
SEAMAN, Ernest. (reg No. 1122).
Lance-Corporal. 2nd Battalion. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
London Gazetted on 15th November 1918.
VC Medal's Custodian is the Royal Army Service Corps HQ, Camberley.
Born on 16th August 1893.
Killed in action on 29th September 1918 at Terhand, Belgium. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele, Belgium and at Scole, Norfolk. (No known grave).
Digest of Citation reads: Lance-Corporal Seamen showing great courage and initiative rushed forward with his Lewis gun, under extremely heavy fire, when the right flank of his company was held up by a post of enemy machine-guns. Single-handed, he engaged the position, captured two machine-guns and 12 prisoners, after killing an officer and two men. The same day, he charged under heavy fire, another enemy machine-gun post, capturing the gun. He was killed on this occasion.
Additional information:. Army No. 42364 , Lance-Corporal Seamen also held the Military Medal (MM) awarded for gallantry whilst voluntarily attending to a wounded comrade. He was the son of Henry Seamen and Mrs Palmer, of the Kings Inn, Bungay Road, Scole, Norfolk. He had a Council School education, joining the Army ( Expeditionary Force Canteens) in December 1915. He was sent to France on 24th December 1915, serving with the the 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, until he was killed in action on 29th September 1918.
Additional information
Army No. 42364 , Lance-Corporal Seamen also held the Military Medal (MM) awarded for gallantry whilst voluntarily attending to a wounded comrade. He was the son of Henry Seamen and Mrs Palmer, of the Kings Inn, Bungay Road, Scole, Norfolk. He had a Council School education, joining the Army ( Expeditionary Force Canteens) in December 1915. He was sent to France on 24th December 1915, serving with the the 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, until he was killed in action on 29th September 1918.
Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele, Belgium
and at Scole, Norfolk. (No known grave).
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