Age: 20
Sex: male
Date: 30 Jul 1900
Place: Gravesend Barracks, Gravesend, Kent
Ernest Parrett was stabbed with a bayonet near his camp in Gravesend where he was a militiaman.
He was found with a bayonet wound to his left side and died within a few hours. At the time he was stabbed soldiers in a tent heard him cry 'Murder, I'm stabbed'. He was then found in one of the tents bleeding from a deep wound.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Northants Evening Telegraph - Saturday 18 August 1900
see Banbury Advertiser - Thursday 30 August 1900
see Western Gazette - Friday 10 August 1900
see Bury and Norwich Post - Tuesday 21 August 1900
see Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 14 August 1900
see Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 15 August 1900
see Northampton Mercury - Friday 03 August 1900
see Wikipedia
see Unsolved 1900