Will O'Brien Posted 2 February , 2006 Share Posted 2 February , 2006 As per CWGC Name: ELLIS, WILLIAM ARTHUR Initials: W A Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Unit Text: 187th Coy. Age: 20 Date of Death: 02/02/1917 Service No: 61122 Additional information: Son of Ellen Louisa Ellis, of Star Cottage, Ilsington, Newton Abbot, Devon, and the late George Ellis. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: XVIII. H. 12. Cemetery: AMARA WAR CEMETERY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 2 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 2 February , 2006 & the cemetery info Cemetery: AMARA WAR CEMETERY Country: Iraq Visiting Information: THE COMMISSION STRONGLY ADVISES THAT THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE SHOULD BE CONTACTED BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO VISIT IRAQ. Their details are as follows: Travel Advice Unit Consular Division Foreign and Commonwealth Office Old Admiralty Building London SW1A 2AF Tel: 0207 008 0232/0233 Fax: 0207 008 0164 Website: http://www.fco.gov.uk/ Opening Times: Monday to Friday 09.30 - 16.00 Location Information: Amara is a town on the left bank of the Tigris some 520 kilometres from the sea. The War Cemetery is a little east of the town between the left bank of the river and the Chahaila Canal. Historical Information: Amara was occupied by the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force on 3 June 1915 and it immediately became a hospital centre. The accommodation for medical units on both banks of the Tigris was greatly increased during 1916 and in April 1917, seven general hospitals and some smaller units were stationed there. Amara War Cemetery contains 4,621 burials of the First World War, more than 3,000 of which were brought into the cemetery after the Armistice. 925 of the graves are unidentified. In 1933, all of the headstones were removed from this cemetery when it was discovered that salts in the soil were causing them to deteriorate. Instead a screen wall was erected with the names of those buried in the cemetery engraved upon it. Plot XXV is a Collective Grave, the individual burial places within this are not known. There are also seven non-war graves in the cemetery. No. of Identified Casualties: 3703 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 2 February , 2006 Author Share Posted 2 February , 2006 William's online MIC index entry can be seen here. This indicates he initially served with the Devonshire Regt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Posted 2 February , 2006 Share Posted 2 February , 2006 Here's to William. Aye Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisharley9 Posted 3 February , 2006 Share Posted 3 February , 2006 Born & resident Ilsington Enlisted Bovey Tracey KIA Formerly 1688 Devon Regt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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