BORN HULL 1895. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM & ELIZA ANN OF 20 , MOXON STREET, HULL(1901 CENSUS) AND 18 CHEAPSIDE, HULL. EMPLOYED AT JAMESON’S FLAX MILLS. UNMARRIED. HE LIVED WITH HIS SISTER, MRS CUSHION, AT 8 SPRING TERRACE, SPRING STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE WITH THE 12TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS REPORTED MISSING AND KILLED ON 13/11/1916, AGED 21. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 29/11/1917. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST MATTHEWS CHURCH BOULEVARD AND THE HULL BOYS CLUB MEMORIAL, ROPER STREET. HIS BROTHER MARK ALSO SERVED IN FRANCE.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE BENJAMIN ELLIS 12/1300. Born in 1895, Benjamin was the son of William and Eliza Ellis of 18 Eastcheap, Hull. A Flax Mill Labourer by trade he enlisted at City Hall on 29th December 1914 joining the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. His rap sheet would suggest he was something of a reluctant soldier with not much taste for the strictures of military discipline. Benjamin was killed in action on 13th November 1916 during the last attack of the fateful Somme campaign. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; he was 21 years old.
