Wilfred Ellershaw

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]

Ellershaw 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]