Name
Walter Frederick Ellis
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/10/1914
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
10380
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Weston, Not on the Stevenage Old Town memorials
Pre War
Born in 1884 to Fanny Ellis. Baptised on 7 December 1884 in Weston. Married Rose Ellen Edwards in 1909. 1911 Census: Living at Clothall, nr Baldock, Herts with wife Rose Ellen and working as a Coal Porter.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Hertford, Herts. Killed in action during a heavy bombardment of the trenches and the village at Givenchy-Violaides, west of Bethune.
Walter was the first Weston fatality of World War I.
Additional Information
Monies owing to him and a war gratuity of £5 was divided between his sisters Ada Mary and Sylvia, grandmother Mary and stepfather George.
Acknowledgments
Peter Handy, Brenda Palmer
