George Edwin Ellison - wikipedia George Edwin Ellison For other people named George Ellison, see George Ellison ( disambiguation ). Pte. George Edwin Ellison Birth name George Edwin Ellison 1878 Leeds, England 11 November 1918 ( aged 40 ) Mons, Belgium Allegiance United Kingdom Service / branch British Army Years of service ? ? ? ? - 1912 1914 -- 1918 Rank Private Unit 5th Royal Irish Lancers Battles / wars First World War Battle of Mons First Battle of Ypres Battle of Armentières Battle of La Bassée Battle of Loos Battle of Cambrai George Edwin Ellison ( 1878 -- 11 November 1918 ) was the last British soldier to be killed in action during the First World War. He died at 09 : 30 am ( 90 minutes before the armistice came into effect ) while on a patrol on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium. Contents 1 Biography 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading Biography Ellison came from Leeds, England. Early in his life, he joined the British Army as a regular soldier but had left by 1912 when he was married to Hannah Maria Burgan and had become a coal miner. Sometime just before the outbreak of war he was recalled to the army, joining the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, serving in the army at the start of the war. He fought at the Battle of Mons in 1914, and several other battles including the Battle of Ypres, Battle of Armentières, Battle of La Bassée, Battle of Lens, Battle of Loos, and Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front. Ellison, stated to be aged 40, is buried in the St Symphorien Military Cemetery, just southeast of Mons. Coincidentally, and in large part due to Mons being lost in the very opening stages of the war and regained at the very end ( from the British perspective ), his grave faces that of John Parr, the first British soldier killed during the Great War. He was survived by Hannah and a son, James Cornelius, just five days short of his fifth birthday when his father was killed. At least two of his grandchildren were alive as of 2008. See also Armistice with Germany : Last casualties References Jump up ^ `` Casualty Details : Ellison, George Edwin ''. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 13 November 2010. Jump up ^ John Lichfield, Two soldiers linked in death by a bizarre coincidence, The Independent, 8 November 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2011 Jump up ^ `` The Last Day of World War One ''. Timewatch. Season 2008 -- 2009. BBC. Jump up ^ Michael Palin, The grandfather we never knew, BBC News, 29 October 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2011 Further reading Michael Palin, Remembering Private Ellison, BBC News, 29 October 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2011 Peter Lazenby, Leeds soldier who was last to die in Great War, Yorkshire Evening Post, 7 November 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2011 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Edwin_Ellison&oldid=820913677 '' Categories : 1878 births 1918 deaths People from Leeds British military personnel killed in World War I British Army personnel of World War I 5th Royal Irish Lancers soldiers Hidden categories : CWGC person ID same as Wikidata Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch 日本 語 Русский Svenska 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 17 January 2018, at 10 : 07. About Wikipedia

Question: who was the last british soldier killed in ww2
Answer: 11 November 1918