Herbert Henry Ellis

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Grave/Memorial:  		Ellis, Herbert H

18 Feb 1898

Henry and Amelia (née Fischel)

1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment

18674

Private

7 July 1916, France, age 18

Thiepval Memorial, Thiepval, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France 		   

Herbert Henry Ellis was born, on 8 February 1898, in Hampstead, London. He was the eldest son of Henry and Amelia Clara
Elizabeth (née Fischel). He had one brother. Henry’s father died after the 1901 census, and his mother remarried, to Mark
Browning, in 1909.

In November 1902, Herbert was admitted to St Matthew’s School, Westminster. The admission register states that he had
previously attended Hampstead School (Westminster Road).

Herbert enlisted at Warminster, Wiltshire (probably in 1915 when he was seventeen). He served with the 1st Battalion, The
Wiltshire Regiment.

In July 1916, the 1st Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment was actively involved in the Battle of the Somme; they saw action on July
4th at Thiepval. Herbert Henry Ellis was reported missing, presumed dead, on 7 July 1916.


His final resting place is not known. His name, along with others of his regiment, appears on the Pier and Face 13 A of the Thiepval Memorial, Thiepval France.

The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the
Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more
than 72,000 officers and men of the United
Kingdom and South African forces who died in
the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and
have no known grave.

The memorial was built between 1928 and 1932
and unveiled by the Prince of Wales, in the
presence of the President of France, on 1 August
1932.