Report on death of Ernest Chivers from Surrey Comet dated 9th December 1914.

KINGSTON SOLDIERS KILLED IN ACTION. A Well Known Local Swimmer and Athlete. News has reached Kingston of the death of Lance Corporal Ernest T. Chivers, of the 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, son of Mr. H. Chivers, of Kingston, late of the 3rd. East Surrey Regiment, the young soldier having keen killed in action in France on November 1st. Chivers was a reservist, and was called upon the outbreak of the war, being at that time employed as a collector to Mr. Thomas Forsyth, coal merchant, Cromwell-road, Kingston. He was a single man, 28 years of age. He had served six years with the colours, and was discharged to the reserve earlier than otherwise would have been the case owing to an injury to the knee sustained while playing football for his company. He was one of the most prominent members of the Kingston Cygnet Swimming Club, and had been the winner of the club's one-mile race in the Thames. Last Season he was a member of the Kingston Football Club. He was a good athlete, and while serving with the colours, won the Army Temperance Association Marathon in 1910., organized by his regiment and open to the garrisson of Dover, for which he received a gold medal. In the following year he was second best champion all-round athlete of the Dover garrison. A member of a well-known Kingston family, he himself was very well known in athletic circles in the town. He had seen most of the fighting since the beginning of the war. See report in original format.