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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Engineers
Division:
173rd Coy.
Birth:
November 19, 1892
Victoria, British Columbia
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
March 19, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. R. 2.
Additional information
Son of Ada Leslie Ellis, of Victoria, British Columbia, and William Harrington Ellis, of Port Hope, Ontario. Formerly served as a Pte. in the Artists' Rifles.
Brother of Purser Leslie Harrington Ellis who died on November 14, 1943 while serving with the Canadian Merchant Navy.
Additional citations
Military Cross
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis
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Rouleau de service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo de Shirley Duncan Ellis
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Mémorial
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The name of "2nd Lt S. D. Ellis M.C: R.E." is among the 628 names carved on the Memorial Screen, which can be seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks -
Mémorial
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010. -
Coupure de presse
From the Daily Colonist of April 21, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y113uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of March 21, 1916. -
Coupure de presse
From the Daily Colonist of December 12, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist59y314uvic/mode/1up?view=theater -
Coupure de presse
From the Vancouver (B. C.) newspaper c. 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 571 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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