Name
Henry Ellis
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/04/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
17th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GREVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
I. B. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
SACRED HEART OF JESUS SACRED MERCY ON HIM
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
Henry Ellis was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, the son of James and Mary Ellis. He lived at 221 Military Road, Mosman, New South Wales with his wife Katherine and worked as a Clerk.
His wife later lived at Leamington Road Villas, Kensington, London, England.
Wartime Service
He had served in the AN & MEF, Raboul for 6 months and enlisted as a Private in the 17th Battalion, D Company. His unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A32 Themistocles on 12 May 1915.
He served in Egypt, Gallipoli and the Western Front.
He embarked from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli on 16 August 1915 but was admitted to the 5th Field Ambulance on 26 August 1915 with dysentery and rejoined his unit on 3 September 1915. He was promoted to Sergeant on 5 December 1915.
Following the general Gallipoli evacuation on 9 January 1916, he was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 12 March and arrived in Marseilles, France on 23 March 1916.
He was admitted to 2nd Division Rest Station on 27 June 1916 with trench feet and eventually transferred to England on 1 July 1916 to hospital in Wandsworth. He rejoined his Battalion in the field on 11 October 1916.
He was admitted to 1st Australian General Hospital at Etretat on 11 November 1916 with debility and again transferred to England, eventually, after spending some time in No. 1 Training Battalion at Rollestone, he rejoined his Battalion on 19 March 1917.
He was promoted to Lieutenant on 8 March 1917 and wounded in action on 15 April 1917 with a gun shot wound and compound fracture to his right thigh. Although admitted same day to the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station he died of his wounds on 16 April 1917 aged 31.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
aif.adfa.edu.au
