Ellis Childs

Forenames

Ellis AWMM

Surname

Childs AWMM

Also known as

Ellis John Childs AWMM

Service number

WWI 55423 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

13 Mar 1897 AWMM

Address before enlistment

Pre 1917 AWMM C/o A. Tozer, Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Albert Childs (father), Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 26 Jul 1917 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1919 AWMM Western Front AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 55423 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 1917 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM
Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 26 Jul 1917-24 Sep 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 90 AWMM Vessel was Ulimaroa AWMM Private AWMM 28th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

• Height, Unknown Period AWMM
  5 foot 7 inches AWMM
• Weight, Unknown Period AWMM
  130 pounds AWMM
• Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Death

13 Dec 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Polygon Wood Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM D. 20. AWMM

Memorial name

• Pleasant Point War Memorial, South Canterbury AWMM
• Pleasant Point School War Memorial, South Canterbury AWMM

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21893829
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Pleasant Point War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/pleasant-point-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• Are you a relative of this soldier and want to keep his memory alive? With the ‘Wood of Peace’ project you can plant a tree in his name in 2017 near Polygon Wood, Belgium.
  http://passchendaele2017.org/en/evenementen/vredesbos-polygoonbos/
  Further Reference
• SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
  https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=1200
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/480013/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/480013
  Further Reference
• Passchendaele Museum Profile
  https://archives.passchendaele.be/en/soldier/1438
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• Macdonald, L. (1978). Passchendaele : the story of the third Battle of Ypres 1917. London : Penguin Books.
• Harper, G. (2000). Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story. Auckland, N.Z.: HarperCollins.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  69: 23
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• HMNZT 90. Te karere : the message : H.M.N.Z.T. no. 90. [1917].
• Ferguson, David (1921). The history of the Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919. Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd: Auckland, N.Z.