In memory of

Corporal

Herbert Clarence Duff Ellis

who died on 30 Mar 1944

Service details
  Conflict WWII
  Service RCAF
  Unit Royal Canadian Air Force
  Rank Corporal
  Service number R142087
  Date of death 19440330
  Cause of death died of wounds
Narrative history
  R142087 Corporal (RCAF service police) (Herbert Clarence) Duff Ellis (b.1911) of Bienfait died 19440330 and is buried at Brookwood military cemetery near London, England. he was the son of John Alton and Grace (Boyd) Ellis. Duff was a coal miner before the war, and served with the RCMP at Weyburn and Regina before enlisting at the latter late in 1941. He washed out of pilot training because of hearing problems and became an RCAF police officer. Duff was wounded by a German bomb in London 19440223 and died over a month later on the operating table while the doctors were trying to remove shrapnel from his body. He married Vivian Mauretta (Adair) at Toronto, Ontario, a year after signing up.
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Memorial information
  Saskatchewan rural municipality for commemoration 4 - Coalfields
  Cemetery or memorial location Brookwood military cemetery, Woking, Surrey, England    

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  Honour roll location(s) Bienfait
  Geo-memorial Ellis Lake, Saskatchewan     
  Geo-memorial location 55.0833°N / 104.4833°W
  Geo-memorial NTS map reference 73P1
  Geo-memorial details North of Wapawekka Lake.
Personal information
  Date of birth 19110831
  Place of birth Bienfait    
  Date of enlistment 19411114
  Place of enlistment Regina    
  Residence on enlistment Bienfait    
  Occupation policeman
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