Private 357877 James Ellison
Regiment/Unit: King's (Liverpool Regiment) - 1st/10th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 32
Date of death: 1st of December 1917
(Saturday)
Born: Leigh, Lancs
Resided: Clock Face, St Helens
Burial / Memorial: Cambrai Memorial Louverval - Panel 4.
BMD details:
Marriage:
1st Qtr 1907 James Ellison to Lily Smith at Leigh, Lancashire.
Vol 8c - Page 363.
Family details:
Husband of Lily Ellison, of 41, Westleigh Lane, Leigh, Lancs.
Census details:
1891 - 6 years old James is living at 61 Oxford Street, Atherton with parents James (32), Mary A (28) and two siblings: Elizabeth (4), Nelly (1).
1901 - 16 years old 'Pony Driver in Mine' James is living at 5 Moor Street, Leigh with widowed father James (42) and three siblings: Elizabeth A (14), William (8), Fred (6).
1911 - Sees 26 years old 'Coal Miner - Hewer' James living at 17 School Street, Westleigh, Leigh with wife of four years Lily (23) and three children: William (3), Edna (2), James (4 mths).
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=36]Remembered on the Clock Face Colliery War Memorial[/url]
Age taken from census.
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/JEllison_KLR.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Private James Ellison on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
SHROH ref. 3059