Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
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Thomas Buick Ellis
Military Information
- Date of enlistment: 02.08.1915
- Place of enlistment: Melbourne
- Service no: 4182
- Rank: Lance Corporal
- Service Occupation:
- Awards:
- Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry
- Unit/Ship: 1st Pioneer Battalion
- Place of Death: France
- Age at Death: 39
- Date of Death: 20.12.1916
- Burial Country: France
- Cemetery: Dartmoor Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt
- Grave/Mem Ref no: I.F.20.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth:
- Place of Birth: Dundee
- Address:
- Occupation: Ship Draftsman
- Mother:
Mary Ellis, Briarbank, Camphill Rd, Broughty Ferry
- Father:
William Ellis, Briarbank, Camphill Rd, Broughty Ferry
- Siblings:
Lizzie, Horatio, William, Fanny, James, David, Christina, Frank
- Spouse:
- Children:
More about Thomas Buick Ellis
Thomas died of wounds at the 1st ANZAC Medical Dressing Station. For more information on Thomas, visit Thomas’s Service Record.
He was the brother of James Ceasar Ellis, 1st Engineer S.S. Tivives who died 03.05.1918 and Sub Lt, Frank Ellis, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Thomas was a former pupil of Grove Academy, Broughty Ferry and is remembered on the schools war memorial.
Thomas Ellis 4182 Australian Infantry
DUNDEE AUSTRALIAN DIES OF WOUNDS.
Lance-Corporal Thomas B. Ellis, of the Australian contingent, has died of wounds in an Anzac dressing station.
Deceased, whose mother resides at Briarbank, Camphill Road, Broughty Ferry, had been in Australia for about eight years, where he was in Government service. Lance-Corporal Ellis served his apprenticeship as a draughtsman in Gourlay’s Shipyard, Dundee. He was thirty-nine years of age, and was a nephew of Mr Thomas Buick, solicitor, Dundee.
Dundee Courier 13th January 1917
Information researched and supplied by Gary Thomson, additional information kindly supplied by Michael Caldwell
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