View source for Ellison Robert Edward Captain 179846

{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Ellison Robert Edward
|Army number=179846
|Rank=Captain.
|Decorations= None known so far.
|Date of birth=1911 in London.
|Age=33 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 22/3/1941.  Posted to No 4 ITC, Brancepeth.  Posted to the 11th Bn DLI 5/11/1942.  Served Normandy.   Wounded and evacuated beyond Regimental Aid Post 1/7/1944.  Posted back to No 4 ITC as at 12/8/1944 and return to Battalion requested.  Returned to the Battalion 15/8/1944.  With the Battalion on disbandment 26/8/1944. Transferred to the Green Howards 30/8/1944.  Posted 7th Bn Green Howards.  KILLED in ACTION with 7th Bn Green Howards 12/9/1944.
|Company/Battery=ITC - ATO as a 2/Lt, B Company.  11th Battalion - A Company.
|Task or role=Company 2 i/c as at 4/3/1942 at the ITC, and Company 2 i/c at 8/1/1943 with 11th Battalion. 
|Joined Brigade=5/11/1942.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 22/9/1942, A/Captain 8/1/1943.  T/Captain 8/4/1943.
|Wounded=1/7/1944 at Rauray.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 12/9/1944.  Initially interred at Poyel - Maps 25 & 35, reference 059877, alongside other Green Howards casualties.  Re-buried 4/7/1945 in Grave IV.C.1. Geel War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "WE HAVE LOST HIM HEAVEN HAS FOUND HIM. OUR LOVING MEMORY. MOTHER, FATHER, BABE".  Probate granted 12/5/1945, Llandudno Registry.
|Home address=Resident of Surrey.  Son of Cornelius Samuel and Gladys Irene Ellison of Worcester Park, Surrey.  
|Source table=11DLI
}}

Also known as Robert Edward Fry (Probate records).

For Captain Ellison's commemorative record please see [[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2806504/ELLISON,%20ROBERT%20EDWARD here]]