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Personal data

• Name ELLIS
• Initials H
• First name HARRY
• Place of birth Cleckheaton
• Country West Yorkshire, England
• Last residence 4, Foundry Terrace, Cleckheaton, Yorks.
• Family Son of George William Frederick and Mary Ellis, of Cleckheaton; a brother, James; a sister
• Profession Employed at Moorland Mills
• Extra info Husband of Lucy May Young (formerly Ellis), of 4, Foundry Terrace, Cleckheaton, Yorks.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 2 September 1914, Cleckheaton
• Service number 2379
• Rank Serjeant
• Regiment and unit 1st/4th Bn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
• Division - Brigade 147th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 49th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career To France on 15 April 1915; promotion to sergeant October 1915

Death

• Type of wounds Died of bomb wounds to head and legs; at Can CCS; buried by the Rev. A.B. Brooker
• Date of death 15 December 1915
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IV - B - 24A

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