Regimental number | 3229 |
Place of birth | Quorn, South Australia |
School | State School |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | Oodnadatta, South Australia |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 18 |
Height | 5' 7.5" |
Weight | 143 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, Charles E Ellis, 236 Mile, East and West Railway via Port Augusta, South Australia |
Previous military service | Nil (exempt area under Compulsory Military Training scheme). |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Place of enlistment | Adelaide, South Australia |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 32nd Battalion, 7th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/49/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A57 Malakuta on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 32nd Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 19.7 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 19 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 120 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Charles Edward and Jane ELLIS. Native of Quorn, South Australia |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Adelaide, 27 June 1916; disembarked Devonport, England, 22 August 1916; mrched in to 8th Training Bn, Larkhill, 24 August 1916. Admitted sick to Fovant Hospital, 27 December 1916 (mumps); discharged, 1 January 1917 (no further details recorded). Proceeded overseas to France, 25 June 1917; taken on strength, 32nd Bn, in the field, 19 July 1917. Killed in action, 13 October 1917. Handwritten notation on Form B103: 'Buried'. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Sources | NAA: B2455, ELLIS Charles Sylvester |