Ellis Paiba

Lieutenant Ellis James Alfred Paiba was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1880, in Kensington, the eldest son of David, an agent for foreign manufacturers, and Minna Miriam Paiba (née Davis), of London and Kingston, Jamaica, respectively. Before the war, Paiba had worked as a house agent and involved himself in social work in the East End, being employed, amongst other things, as a captain in the Jewish Lads' Brigade and as manager of Hutchison House Club (from 1910 to 1913).The Times (41004), Col C, p. 11: "Fallen Officers". 5 November 1915.
Paiba enlisted on the outbreak of war in August 1914, joining the Public Schools Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers, as a private. He attained the rank of quartermaster-serjeant before obtaining a commission in the regiment's 8th Battalion, from which he was later transferred to the 15th. While attached to the 2nd Royal Fusiliers, Paiba served in the Gallipoli Campaign and died on 20 October 1915.
He is buried in Azmak Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Paiba, Ellis James Alfred, cwgc.org. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
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