Wilfred Ellershaw (1871 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer who served as aide-de-camp to Lord Kitchener.[1]

Ellershaw was the son of Reverend John Ellershaw. He was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire.[2] He married Katherine Ingles, daughter of Rear-Admiral John Ingles and Catherine Sophia Glennie, on 22 June 1899.[1]

He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery. Between 1899 and 1906 he was an instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He subsequently rose to the rank of brigadier-general. During the First World War he served as special service officer at the War Office and became the aide-de-camp to the British field marshal, Lord Kitchener.[3]

Ellershaw died alongside Kitchener on 5 June 1916 when the ship he was on, HMS Hampshire, shortly after leaving Scapa Flow, struck a mine laid by a German U-boat.[1]

Ellershaw is commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial of Hollybrook Cemetery, located in Shirley, Southampton.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "- Person Page 30078".
  2. ↑ "Page Title". bloxhamschoolwardead.co.uk. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011.
  3. ↑ "Wisden – Deaths in the war, 1916". Cricinfo. December 2005.
  4. ↑ Davies, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (30 April 2014). Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of the Great War 1914–1918. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781473812512.


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