Gerrard Herbert Elsworth

Rank:2nd Lieut
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No:62nd Punjabis
Name of Rgt or Ship:Indian Army Reserve of Officers
Died:27/06/1916Age:32
How Died:Died of Cholera
Country of burial:IraqGrave Photo:No
Cemetery or Memorial:Basra Cem, Shatt-al-Arab
Town Memorial:Sale
Extra Information:
Born during the September 1884 in the Holywell R.D. - ref: 11b/239, the
second son of Tyndall & Avis Adeline Elsworth (nee Gerrard).

1891 Census - Southern Road, Ashton upon Mersey.   [Surname spelt with two
'L's]  Son - aged: 6 - Scholar - born: Greenfield, Flintshire, Wales.  
Head of household - Tyndall Ellsworth - Married - aged: 37 - occ: Merchants
Buyer with East India Company.   Also Avis A. Ellsworth - Wife - aged: 35 -
born: Manchester. Plus 3 younger siblings, including Eric George Elsworth
who was also killed during WW1.

1901 Census - Park Road, Ashton upon Mersey.   Son - aged: 16 - occ:
Shipper's Clerk - born: Greenfield, Flintshire, Wales.   Head of household
- Avis Aveline Elsworth - Wife - aged: 44 - born: Manchester.   Plus 4
siblings, including Eric George Elsworth who was also killed during WW1.  
No trace of his father.

1911 Census - No Trace of the family.   Presumably somewhere in the Far
East, as he married Mabel Gertrude Aacheison in Japan in April 1911.

The Homeward Mail dated the 24th December 1910.  "Mrs & Miss Ascherson
(sic) are leaving 4 Kensington Gate early in February for Japan, where Miss
Asherson's (sic) marriage with Gerrard H. Elsworth will take place in
April.

Died of Cholera. 

His mother - Avis Adeline Elsworth died in 1903, aged: 47 and his father in
1911, aged: 59.

CWGC - Son of Tyndall & Avis Adeline Elsworth of Ashton upon Mersey.  
Husband of Mabel Gertrude Elsworth (nee Atcheison) of Karachi, India.


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