HARRY+M.+ELLSE

 Ellse, Harry Martin. Private 18190, 11th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Disembarked for service 27th August 1915  Born Chesterfield, Derbyshire Died of wounds 12th April 1917, Aged 35 Son of George William and Lydia Ellse, of Chesterfield  CWGC next of Kin: Mr E Ellse, of 16 Tapton View Road, Chesterfield  Buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave Reference: XI C 38A 1911 Census A plasterer Brother in law of Albert Peppitt, a railway telegraphist, of Tapton View Road, Stonegravels, Chesterfield, Derbyshire CHESTERFIELD SOLDIER KILLED Mr Ernest Ellse, pawnbroker, Beetwell Street, Chesterfield, has been informed of the death of his brother, Pte Henry Martin Else, Sherwood Foresters. Aged 37 and single, Private Ellse was wounded on Easter Monday, and his death took place at one of the Canadian Casualty Stations in France. Before enlisting shortly after the outbreak of war he was in business as a plasterer and lived at Tapton View Road, Stonegravels. He had been 19 months in France. Derbyshire Times April 21st 1917 (Photograph from the Derbyshire Courier, 21st April 1917)


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