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Ellis Thomas Carrington's grave, Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey. |
Carrington. Ellis Thomas
Was Born in Hoyland on the 5th July, 1895, and eventually became a Miner at Silkstone Colliery, he lived at 2, Low Blacker Hill, and enlisted in the York and Lancaster Regiment on the 3rd September, 1914. His father Ellis Thomas Carrington, lived at 17, Silver Street, Platts Common.
He transferred to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on the 10th September, 1914 and joined Drake Battalion on the 3rd November, 1914, and became a part of "B" Coy. on 9th January, 1915. He was rated Able Seaman on the 1st March, 1915 became part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Dardenelles.
He suffered a bullet wound to the head on the 21st June, 1915, and died of wounds aboard HMS Somali on the 26th June, 1915.
For more information and pictures of those Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve's who served in Kitchener's Royal Naval Division, see links to www.jackclegg.com
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Ellis Thomas Carrington's grave, Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Turkey. |
Picture by the War Graves Photographic Project
