Edward Ellison

Name

Edward Ellison

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

20/01/1916
23

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Lance Corporal
R/7355
King's Royal Rifle Corps
8th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
II. C. 31A
Belgium

Headstone Inscription

Faithful unto death

UK & Other Memorials

Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin

Pre War

He was born on the 2nd November 1893 in Alton in Hants. t the second son of James George and Elizabeth Fanny Ellison nee Culverwell of ‘Penlee’, Station Ave, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. His father was a painter and decorator. He was educated at the National School in Alton.

He married Susan (nee Hunt of 33 Wratten Road, Hitchin and later of "Penlee," Station Avenue, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey), second daughter of the late Charles Hunt of Hitchin, in Abbey Church, Minster, Sheerness on the 22nd July 1915 and their home was at 33, The Wratten, Hitchin. They had no children. 

On the 14th November 1914 he enlisted in Hammersmith while resident in Hitchin.

Wartime Service

Edward joined the 8th Battalion and was given Regimental Number R/7355. He trained at Winchester and Sheerness and on the 29th December 1915 he went to the Western Front. On the 19th January 1916 he was shot in the head whilst assisting a carrying party (some records suggest he was in charge of the party). He was admitted to 17 Casualty Clearing Station in a critical condition and died shortly after.

Sergeant Knight of his company wrote: "He was one of the best men I ever had under me."

He was buried in Plot 2, Row C, Grave 31A in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium. A private inscription has been added to his gravestone reading "Faithful unto death".

Additional Information

Edward is also commemorated on a separate stone, sited on the grave of Sarah Hunt in the Hitchin Cemetery, it reads:

Acknowledgments

Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild