ELLIS, Richard Paul
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Rank:
Fusilier
Unit / Base:
6 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
Service:
Army
Number:
4279057
Died :
Monday, November 30, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
20
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Fusilier Richard Ellis was reported missing 30 November 1942, later presumed killed in action, during operations in North Africa. He has no known grave. Son of Richard Thomas Ellis and Jean Ellis, of Shotton Colliery, Co. Durham.
His Commando were engaged in an assault on one of a line of flat topped hills known as Green Hill which was held by the enemy and covered the road and railway running from Tabarka to Mateur.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/55 (1942) and WO417/77 (1944).
The Green Beret by Hilary St. George Saunders.
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