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ELLIS, Henry
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | 14, 1365 |
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Enlisted: | 11 August 1914, Headquarters, Private, 14 |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Caledon, Tyrone, Ireland, 1886 |
Home Town: | Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Died of wounds, France, 16 April 1917 |
Cemetery: |
Grevillers British Cemetery I. B. 12. |
Memorials: |
Service History
World War 1 Service
11 Aug 1914: | Enlisted Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), Headquarters, Private, 14 | |
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4 Mar 1915: | Discharged Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), Private, 14 | |
18 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1 | |
12 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 1365, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney | |
15 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 17th Infantry Battalion, Noreuil, (right thigh) in action during a German attack on the front near Noreuil, Pas-de-Calais. He was evacuated to the 3rd British Casualty Clearing Station, then at Aveluy, Somme, where he died the next day. | |
16 Apr 1917: | Involvement Lieutenant, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 17th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1917-04-16 |
Personal Stories
Lt Henry Ellis
From Irish Regiments of WW1
Lieutenant Henry Ellis 17th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Died on the 16th April 1917. Buried in Grevillers British Cemetery, France. Son of James Ellis and the late Mary Murnin, his wife; husband of Katherine Ellis, of 52, Leamington Road Villas, Kensington, London, England. Born at Strabane, Co. Tyrone.
Submitted 17 April 2019 by Evan Evans