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Military service
Service number:
138193
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
3rd Bn.
Birth:
December 9, 1894
Death:
September 3, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. C. 17.
Additional information
Son of the late Sidney G. and Jessie Ellis, of 2, Moneyton Quad., Rutherglen, Scotland; husband of Minnie Hay Templeton Ellis, of 91, Arlington Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Digital gallery of Private Sidney Gibson Ellis
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
Pte. Sidney G. Ellis is mentioned in this article about his brother-in-law. Pte. John Templeton, who enlisted twice under service numbers 109640 and 727858, survived the war. -
Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of SIDNEY GIBSON ELLIS
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Sidney Gibson Ellis
Digital gallery of
Private Sidney Gibson Ellis
Digital gallery of
Private Sidney Gibson Ellis
Digital gallery of
Private Sidney Gibson Ellis
Digital gallery of
Private Sidney Gibson Ellis
Digital gallery of
Private Sidney Gibson Ellis
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Commemorated on:
Page 83 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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SUNKEN ROAD CEMETERY, CONTALMAISON Somme, France
Contalmaison is a village in the Department of the Somme, 6 kilometres east-north-east of Albert. The Sunken Road, from which the cemetery is named, is part of the Contalmaison-Pozieres road, and the cemetery lies a little east of the road.
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