Name
Frank Edward Ellis
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/08/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman/Private
532932
London Regiment *1
2nd/15th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GODEWAERSVELDE BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot II, Row C, Grave 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour
Pre War
Son of John Thomas and Eliza Annie (nee COLYER) ELLIS of Watford.
His parents married 18 April 1892 at Sts Peter and Paul, Ospringe, Kent. Eliza died 1922 in Watford aged 57, and was buried 24 July in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. John remarried 1922 in the Watford district to Elizabeth Jane PALMER. Elizabeth died 9 February 1957 in Watford aged 89; John died 12 October 1957 in Birmingham17, Warks, aged 86.
Frank was born 12 February 1897 in Watford, and baptised 18 April 1897 at St Mary’s, Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 4 he lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a green-grocer’s errand boy aged 14, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory and British War Medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Frank in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 7 September 1918.
Unfortunately, Frank’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
