ELLIS, Arthur Alfred Burdon

Rank: 
Captain
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Army Service Corps
Service: 
Army
Number: 
191508
Died : 
Thursday, September 2, 1943
Age: 
33
Cemetery/Memorial: 

Captain Ellis was reported missing 26 August 1943 during early Italian beach reconnaissance, later confirmed as dying of wounds whilst a prisoner of war in German hands. Son of Colonel A. C. Ellis, C.B.E., and of Mabel C. Ellis (nee Dwyer); husband of Kathleen Adele Ellis (nee Gahan). M.R.C.V.S.

Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/5 (3 reports).
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.

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