Captain Jeffrey W H Ellis

Jeffrey William Hugh Ellis the son of John Carlyle Ellis and Constance Vera Ellis and husband of Phyllis Mary Ellis, of Wolverhampton, was born on 15 September 1916 in Mysore, India.

He enlisted as a Private in the Dorset Regiment in March 1940. He commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the North Staffordshire Regiment in October 1940.

Captain Ellis transferred to A Company, 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment on 1 August 1942 and attended parachute course 25 at RAF Ringway from 31 August to 8 September 1942 and later took part in Operation Torch.

Capt Ellis was Killed in Action on 11 March 1943. He was originally buried in Beja Civil Cemetery and re-interred on 24 July 1944 to Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery.

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