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Name:
Ernest Ethel Ellis
Regimental Number:
482042
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Canadian Infantry
Battalion:
40th Battalion/64th Battalion/25th Battalion
Date of Birth:
November 14, 1895
Place of Birth:
Norwood, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Date of Enlistment:
August 19, 1915
Place of Enlistment:
Sussex, New Brunswick
Age at Enlistment:
19
Height: 5 Feet 10 Inches
Trade:
Farmer
Marital Status:
Single
Religion:
Baptist
Next of Kin:
Charles Ellis (father), Norwood, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
Date of Death:
July 5, 1917
Battle:
Lens (killed in action)
Age:
21
Cemetery:
Loos British Cemetery, France (Plot: XIX. C. 25)
Commemorated on Page 234 of the First World War Book of Remembrance
Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on May 26
Listed on the Nominal Roll of the 40th Battalion.
Ernest was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ellis, of Norwood, Nova Scotia. He enlisted at Sussex with the
64th Battalion. He was wounded in November 1915, recovered and returned to battle. He was killed
in action July 5, 1917.
In July of 1916 he wrote to his cousin:
Sources:
Veterans Affairs Canada
Additional Information:
“A Monument Speaks” A Thurston; 1989 (pp 157-158)
Ernest Ethel Ellis
Miss Belle Ellis
South Ohio
I left England in apple blossom time, 1st of May. It was certainly very beautiful there then
but I think it far prettier over there where the maple grows.
Certainly it is wonderful how I have escaped so many times Scot free. I tell you our
reception at Ypres was fierce and exciting. Shrapnel hit my helmet and glanced off. Some lucky.
Still we don’t have bad times at all. Like old times we play hide and seek with Fritz in No Man’s
Land. ....