Poverty Bay Herald, 18 December 1920
The death occurred in the Cook hospital yesterday of Mr. T. E. Ellisdon, second son of Mr and Mrs F. J. H. Ellisdon, of Auckland, at the age of 27 years. Mr. Ellisdon was admitted to the hospital twelve days ago with enteric fever, and the malady proved fatal, despite the most careful attention of the medical superintendent and the nursing staff. The deceased joined the 5th Reinforcements, W.M.R., and served as a sergeant in Egypt and Gallipoli. He was wounded in the right leg and returned to New Zealand at the latter end of 1917. Since his return home the deceased had been managing for Mr. S. E. Gillingham, and for some time he had been residing at Rimahau, Waerenga-o-kuri. Mr. Ellisdon was very well known in Auckland and Gisborne. His elder brother (Captain F. J. H. Ellisdon) was killed in the Somme engagement in 1916, and a second brother, Roy, also served as a sergeant with an Auckland regiment. A third brother Arthur (now residing at Wairoa) left with the Main Body. The deceased, by his genial, though quiet nature, made for himself a wide circle of friends wherever he went, and much sympathy will be extended to his young widow and 12-weeks-old child. In addition to the brothers already mentioned, deceased has another brother, Mr. F. Ellisdon, and two sisters, Mrs. A. Menzies and Miss P. Ellisdon, all of whom reside in Auckland. The funeral took place this afternoon.
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