Drummer Ernesto Luigi Lorenzoni was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1899, in Northampton, the son of Italian-born Luigi, an ice cream vendor, and Alice Lorenzoni (née Sibley), local to the area. At the time of the 1911 Census, Lorenzoni was living with his widowed mother, a blouse finisher, at 30 Mansfield Rad.
Lorenzoni died on 24 April 1918, during Germany's Spring Offensive on the Western Front, while serving with the 1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. He had formerly belonged to the Northamptonshire Yeomanry.
He is buried in Tannay British Cemetery, Thiennes.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Lorenzoni, Ernesto Luigi, cwgc.org. Retrieved 11 August 2013.