Walter Melrose ELLIS

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ELLIS, Walter Melrose

Service Number:	891
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	New South Wales Lancers
Born:	Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, 1872
Home Town:	Paddington, Woollahra, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Pneumonia, At sea (Harlech Castle), 18 November 1900
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney St. James Anglican Church New South Wales Army Service Corps Boer War Memorial Tablet

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 891
1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 891, New South Wales Lancers

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Walter Melrose ELLIS was born in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales in 1872

His parents were William ELLIS & Agnes McLENEHAN who married in Sydney on 25th April, 1863

Walter died on board the ship SS Harlech Castle near Fremantle, WA en route home from South Africa of pneumonia and was buried at sea

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial, a Memorial tablets at St Johns Presbyterian Church, Paddington & a Memorial stone at Waverley Cemetery in Sydney

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