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Private GEORGE EDWIN ELLISON

Service Number: L/12643
Regiment & Unit/Ship

5th (Royal Irish) Lancers

Date of Death

Died 11 November 1918

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. SYMPHORIEN MILITARY CEMETERY

I. B. 23.

Belgium

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Photographer: Bill Caudwell

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James W. and Mary Ellison; husband of Hannah Maria Ellison, of 49, Edmund Street, Bank, Leeds. Believed to be the last British battle casualty of the war.
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. SYMPHORIEN MILITARY CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 513
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