Lot 58
4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment – 1914 Star who Died of Wounds on the 19th of December 1915
At Sea, On Land & In The Air | M24003
Auction: 24 September 2024 at 18:30 BST
Description
The 1914 Star awarded to Private William Ellis 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment who was wounded on the 4th of October 1915and took almost three months to die of Gun Shot Wound right leg and Gun Shot Wounds left arm and leg. Leaving his widow with four young sons comprising 1914 Star (G/392 Pte W. Ellis. 4/Midd’x R.), very fine
William Ellis joined the Middlesex Regiment on the 27th of August 1914, a painter and decorator from Huntingdon. He landed in France with the 4th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment on the 11th of November 1914. His papers stae he was wounded in Action on the 4th of October 1915 Gun Shot Wound right leg and Gun Shot Wounds left arm and leg, he was evacuated to England on the 22nd of October 1915. He took nearly three months to die succumbing to his wounds on the 19th of December 1915 at the age of 41. He was the son of William Ellis of High Street Somersham and the husband of Louisa E. Hall, (Formerly Ellis) of 36BB Graham street City Road London, he is Remembered with Honour in Somersham (St John The Baptist) Churchyard in the South-West Part. As far as I can see from the papers, which are incomplete and knocked-about as per, he's 4th when he's hit. I pulled the diary for 4th Middlesex for the first week of October 1915 and the Bn is resting, nothing reported.
The other Bn in his papers is 6th Middlesex but they're Home Service.
Maybe you can see something in the papers I can't about Bn when hit on 4th Oct 1915 - if you can, let me know and I'll chase it up..12.15
