Private Ernest George Friedleben was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War
He was born in 1895, in Lambeth, the son of German-born commercial clerk Carl and Agnes Friedleben (née Ball), of Thornton Heath. At the time of the 1911 census, the younger Friedleben was working as an assistant boot maker at the George Blount Home for Working Boys, 31 Mitcham Lane.
Friedleben died on 7 October 1816, during the Somme Offensive, while serving with the 6th (Service) Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) on the Western Front.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.
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- Friedleben, Ernest George, cwgc.org. Retrieved 7 January 2013.