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Second Lieutenant Shirley Duncan Ellis

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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: British Columbia
Death: March 19, 1916

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. R. 2.
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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.

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 571 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France

Bethune is located 29 kilometres north of Arras.

The BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY is on the northern outskirts of Bethune near the junction of the River Lawe and the Aire la Bassee Canal. From the town centre turn right in front of the Tribunal and second right at the bottom of the road down to the cul de sac.

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