Corporal Samuel Ellis

Army Number : 30793

Battalion : 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Nottingham and lived at 10, Crown Street, Blue Bell Hill, Nottingham. Son of Thomas Murden Ellis and Harriet Ellis, of 6, King’s Place, Barker Gate, Nottingham. Husband of Sarah A. Ellis. He was a lithographer prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, in the attack on the German positions north-west of Thiepval, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Corporal Samuel Ellis is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Bartholomew’s Church Roll of Honour, Nottinghamshire Archives, Nottingham.

His brother Stoker First Class, John Thomas Ellis, H.M.S. Crecy, Royal Navy, also fell in the Great War.