ELLIS, FREDERICK GORDON

Description

Press cuttings and newspapers, including 'The Clitheroe Times', 'The Yorkshire Post', 'The Daily News' and 'The Daily Dispatch', relating to the Battle of the Somme and the Armistice (20 Oct 1916-24 Aug 1923); 14 manuscript letters and three Field Service Postcards to his mother, brother and grandmother (25 Dec 1916-19 Aug 1918, nd); 7 manuscript letters from numerous colleagues to his mother relating to his death (18 Sep-7 Dec 1918); Army report regarding his death (11 Sep 1918); Army report regarding his grave (9 May 1919); Typescript letter from the Imperial War Graves Commission (6 Aug 1924); Papers relating to property belonging to deceased soldiers (nd); Press cutting (nd); Leaflet 'The Registration and Care of Graves' (23 Jan 1917); Typescript papers regarding dependant's allowances (4-28 Oct 1918, nd); Medical card (13 Mar 1916); Photocopied map of Pasde-Calais region (nd); 'The Daily News Map of the British Battle Front' (nd); Manuscript letter from his mother, written and sent
after his death (9 Sep 1918); Manuscript letter from William, a friend from Clitheroe (22 May 1916); 24 manuscript letters of sympathy from various correspondents to his parents and family after his death (12 Sep-8 Oct 1918, 22 Jan 1919); 2 manuscript letters from Alfred Eddy to Miss K Ellis, one asking after FG Ellis and one expressing sympathy (19 Mar 1919, 1 Apr 1919); 3 manuscript letters to Mrs Ellis from Emily E White (18 May 1919, 16 June 1919, 19 Feb 1922); German Flying Officer's cigarette case, with Iron Cross emblem (nd); Music sheets for flute and piccolo solos (nd); 2 Union flags (nd); RFC (Royal Flying Corps) beret, with badges (nd); Booklet 'Soldiers' Language Manual' and French vocabulary sheet (nd); Set of personalised Christmas cards (nd); Musketry scoring book (nd); New Testament (nd); Leather wallet (nd); Coupons in cigarette box (nd); 2 memorial letters from the King (nd); Commemoration scroll (nd); Letter relating to award of British War Medal and Victory Medal (26 Jan
1922); Large photograph of Clitheroe War Memorial, with Form of Service for its unveiling (18 Aug 1923); Memorial list in supplement to 'The Clitheroe Times' (15 Aug 1919); Correspondence and photocopied papers regarding the whereabouts of FG Ellis' grave, with three road maps of the region (8 June-4 Sep 1985, nd); 2 large framed portrait photographs (nd); Framed birthday card to 'Michael' [29 Sep 1845]; 14 family photographs (nd); 10 photographs relating to his service with the RFC (Royal Flying Corps) (nd).

Biography or history

Ellis, Frederick Gordon (d 1918). Private, 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, and 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, serving on the Western Front, 1917-1918, and killed in action, aged 18 years, near Bapaume, 24 Aug 1918. Previously 1st Air Mechanic, RFC (Royal Flying Corps), until 1917.

Provenance

The papers were placed in the Collection by Doctor and Mrs R. G. B. Willis in Feb 2000.

Access and usage

Reproduction

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