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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

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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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