Private Albert Ellis

Army Number : 20384

Battalion : 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Gisborough, Yorkshire and lived at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Alice Maud Ellis, of 75, Somersall Street, Mansfield. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting 3rd December 1914 at Mansfield into the 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 17th August 1915 and went to France 18th August 1915. He was admitted to No.1 Canadian Hospital, Etaples, France, 14th January 1917, suffering from haemorrhoids and was transferred to England on Hospital Ship Warilda, 18th January 1917. He returned to France 23rd March 1917 and was posted to the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 28th May 1917 and the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. 16th June 1917. He was killed in action, 16th September 1917, aged 32, during the attack at Zillebeke, Belgium.

Buried : Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 15. Row F. Grave 1.

Private Albert Ellis is also commemorated on the following local memorials :- 
St. John’s Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.