ERNEST CHARLES LESLIE LYAS
From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG” https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730
As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570
Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.
Born: 1914, Ipswich.
Died: 23rd July 1942; age 27; died of ulcerative colitis at the R.A.F. Hospital Habbaniya.
Residence: 41, Ringham Road, Ipswich.
Enlisted at Uxbridge.
Rank: Corporal; Service Number: 900893.
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No. 56 Repair and Salvage Unit.
Grave Reference:
2.G.3.
Salah ad-Din,
Iraq.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Ernest Edward Lyas & Bertha Eliza Lyas, of Ipswich; husband of Elsie H.M. Lyas.
Father: Ernest Edward Lyas, born July 1882, Ipswich. A Bricklayer.
Mother: Bertha Eliza Lyas (nee Biggins), born July 1886, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1921 41, Ringham Road, Ipswich.
Ernest was 6 years old. He attended School and lived with his parents & sister.
Ernest Lyas, 38 years & 6 months, a Bricklayer for Charles Green – Builder, of Ipswich.
Bertha Lyas, 35 years old, Home Duties.
Dorothy I. Lyas, 9 years old, at School, born Ipswich.
In 1939, in Ipswich, Ernest married Elsie Hettie Mary Pike, a crêpe silk cutter, born 1919, Ipswich – daughter of Arthur Morris Pike, a bar and cellarman, and Mary Ann Pike (nee Howard), of 37, New Cardinal Street, Ipswich.
Probate to John William Biggins & Herbert Percy Fuller.
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