When Ernest Talbot Salt was born on 30 August 1893, in Talbot, Victoria, Australia, his father, John Salt, was 27 and his mother, Louisa Ann Prowse, was 21. He registered for military service in 1916. He died on 27 November 1916, in Somme, Picardie, France, at the age of 23, and was buried in Lesboeufs, Somme, Picardie, France.
English: habitational name from Salt (Staffordshire), from Old English selte ‘salt pit’. Occasionally the name may be a nickname for a producer or seller of salt, from Middle English salt ‘salt’ (compare Salter ), but evidence is lacking.
Native American (Navajo): from a translation into English of the name of the Navajo clan Áshįįhi ‘Salt People’.
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