Friday 29 April 2022

Judith’s expanding horizons in the 1950s

Judith received her “Leaving Certificate” at the end of 5th Form (year 11) in 1951 from Camperdown High School in country Victoria, Australia.[i] 

After graduating, Judith got a job at one of the five banks in town. She swapped her school uniform for a bank uniform and began to ride her bicycle to work rather than school.

Photographer unknown, National Bank Employees Standing in front of the National Bank Camperdown, circa 1852, Victoria, Australia [T375]

Her evenings and weekends were a whirlwind of social activity. She attended local dances, including two debutant balls with her high school sweetheart, Patrick Mitchell. The first debutantes’ ball was the “High School Ex-Students Ball”, in August 1951, where Judith was one of sixteen debutantes.[ii] Propriety dictated that the girls were to be modest and have their shoulders covered, Judith, wondering where she would ever wear such a dress again, chose a shoestring strap gown that was more versatile  The gown was described in the papers as having a “Fitted bodice of broderie anglaise, with appliqued skirt, and appliqued shoulder cape of matching tulle”. The translucent cape enabled her to meet the requirement of covering her shoulders, even if it was a bit daring.

Photographer Frank Rhodes, Group photo of attendees at the Camperdown High School Ex-Students’ Association Debutante Ball Dress, Monday 9 August 1951, Theatre Royal, Camperdown, Victoria, Australia. (Judith is first on the right in the second row, her half-sister is the young girl in the front [T377]

Then came the Cobden Ball in September 1951, where she became the second runner up in the “Western district Belle of Debutantes”, from a field of 36 Debutants.[iii] She also played tennis at the St Andrew’s Church local Tennis club and rode horses as often as time would allow.

In a small country town, everyone knew your business. Not only were the dances reported in the newspapers but also her holidays:

“Miss Judith Todman, of the National Bank staff, Camperdown, is at present on annual leave.”[iv]

Then Judith’s stepfather, Stuart (Pop), passed away suddenly with no warning on 13 July 1952, just like her father had done when she was three. Pop was really the only father that she could remember and now he was gone. Once again everything changed as her brother was recalled from University, to which he would never return, to help his mother manage the farm.

After two years working at the bank, Judith wanted to see the wider world and so decided, almost a year after Pop’s passing, that nursing was the escape she was looking for. Judith moved to Melbourne in the middle of 1953 and began her nurse training, while living at the “Melbourne School of Nursing Student’s Hostel”, with other country and interstate nurse trainees.[v]

Photographer unknown, Graduating from Nurses School, 1956, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [T348] From left: Wendy Dolling, June Mark, Barbara Lancomb, Phyllis Walker, Judith Todman, Louise Hamilton.

Halfway through 1956, Judith graduated from Nursing and immediately moved on to the midwifery course, which she completed during the following year. Her friend bought a Vesper Scooter. Judith was fascinated and went out and bought her own. They realised the freedom that the Vespers gave them to travel and the idea of an adventure was formed. Having received her double certificate, she returned home to work at Camperdown District Hospital in 1958. It was during this return to her childhood home that she decided to go through with her plans to travel to New Zealand, even though her original fellow travellers had dropped out. With replacement travelling companions found, Judith saved earnestly and after four months back in Camperdown was ready to launch off on her new adventure.

Judith and her two new girlfriends rode their Vesper motorbikes from Melbourne to Sydney and caught a ship to New Zealand, taking their bikes with them.  In between earning money as a lab technician, Judith and her friends toured around New Zealand for eight months. They arrived in New Zealand on January 28th 1959 with 390 other passengers on the SS Monawarri. Much had happened in the 4-day journey across the Tasman. Judith had met John, eleven years her senior, an engineer and crew member. He had been so charming and attentive, so unlike the boys back home, debonair in his uniform.

Photographer Unknown, Judith and friend travel via Vespers from to Sydney via New South Wales, 1857, Australia Sandra Williamson’s private photograph collection [T337] [Judith of the right]

After returning from New Zealand Judith got a position at the Freemason’s Hospital, where she worked for six months, living in a flat near the hospital. But by June 1959 she was feeling restless again. There hadn’t been the camaraderie that she experienced during her training and being back in a uniform on the bottom rung again wasn’t much fun. 

Unhappy at work Judith dreamt of alternative futures: of working on the snowfields, getting a job as an air hostess or maybe even running away with John and starting a new life.  She returned briefly to Camperdown to attend her brother’s wedding. He was marrying one of her nursing girlfriends she had introduced him to. This was her third stint as a bridesmaid in Camperdown as more of her friends were settling down and getting married, staying and living in the place where they had grown up, but Judith realized she was not part of this world anymore.

On 23 July 1959 Judith finished up at the Freemason’s and used all her savings to buy a caravan and together she and John took off on their new adventure to look for work and a place to live.

They drove to the Grampians and lived in a caravan park. John managed to get some casual jobs close by in Stawell as a mechanic and some contract work in Mount Gambier.  Finally, he managed to secure a permanent position working for Frost Engineering in Hamilton, with a house as part of the employment contract.

Judith also managed to secure a position at the local Hamilton Hospital, however the job wasn’t the right fit for her and it didn’t work out. She then began working for a local photographer performing administrative support.


Photographer unknown, Judith Todman & John Williamson, 1959, Stawell, Victoria, Australia[T373]

John continued to look for better-paying work with a good house attached. Then, all of a sudden in the middle of 1960, he got an offer to work in Benalla and so they were on the move again.

Inspiration

This post was written in response to the writing prompt at Back to the 1950s  for more detail - see Elizabeth Swanay O'Neal, "The Genealogy Blog Party: Back to the 1950s," Heart of the Family™ (https://www.thefamilyheart.com/genealogy-blog-party-1950s/ : accessed April 28, 2022).

The story told here is but a partial telling of a much larger story as remembered by Judith herself and understood by her daughter Sandra and is based on continuing conversations that began a long time ago.

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Sources

[i] 1950 'HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP AND EXAMINATION RESULTS', Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), 10 March, p. 4. , viewed 28 Apr 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23573857

[ii] 1951 'SIXTEEN DEBUTANTES AT H.S. EX-STUDENTS' BALL', Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), 17 August, p. 1. , viewed 28 Apr 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28331337

[iii] 1951 'VICTORIAN DIARY Women lawyers have meeting', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), 26 September, p. 9. , viewed 28 Apr 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23082188

[iv] 1952 'PERSONAL', Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), 5 February, p. 2. , viewed 28 Apr 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24001922

[v] 1953 'PERSONAL', Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), 5 June, p. 4. , viewed 28 Apr 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25114579

Monday 25 April 2022

William Bassett’s War Service in WW2

 William was single and living with his parents in Balaclava when he enlisted in the Australian Army on 27 May 1940. He trained at Puckapunyal in Victoria. On 27 July 1940, during his training and not long after enlisting, William married Nance Scott. The wedding took place at his local church the Holy Trinity Church, not far from his parent’s home in Balaclava.[i] A few months later he travelled by train to Adelaide with the newly formed and recently renamed 2nd/12th Field Regiment. They embarked on the transport ship “Stratheden” on 17 November 1940, headed for the Middle East.

 

Photographer unknown, William Bassett fourth from the right-back row with Ern Flux standing behind, were both members of the 2/12th Australian Infantry Battalion Australia, 1940, Puckapunyal, Victoria, Australia. (Ern was a witness at William Bassett’s wedding on 27 Jul 1940 in Balaclava, Victoria, Australia) [B265]

Service Overseas

The Middle East December 1940-January 1943

The 2nd/12th Field Regiment disembarked on 17 Dec 1940 and moved to Julis Camp area in Qastina, where their theoretical and physical training continued from 9 January 1941 until at least 12 April 1941. Soon after the completion of training, on 1 July 1941, William was promoted to Sergeant.

Wounded in Tobruk

Thirty days after his promotion, on 31 July 1941, William was wounded during the siege of Tobruk. He had injured his right forearm, and became one of the many Australian casualties from the 9th Division between 8th April to 25th October. 749 were killed, 1,996 wounded and 604 were taken, prisoner. During recovery William was moved to several hospitals:

  • 31 July 1941 – evacuated to No. 4 Australian General Hospital (AGH) in Tobruk
  • 2 August 1941 – moved to No. 11 Australian General Hospital (AGH) in Tobruk
  • 9 August 1941 – moved to No. 2 Australian General Hospital (AGH) in El Kantara on Suez, Egypt

William was then moved to the 1st Australian Convalescent Depot on 22 September 1941 in Kafr Vitkin, Palestine and his name was moved to the X List.

“The X Lists recorded personnel who were absent from their regular units for one reason or another” It could be from any “All ranks evacuated on medical grounds beyond Regimental First Aid Post. Personnel so evacuated cease to be on the effective strength of their units.”[ii]

However, by 29 September 1941, William was moved to the artillery training Regiment in preparation to re-join the action on 4 October 1941 in Palestine.  It had taken a little over two months for William to be ready for duty. He was able to join his old regiment that had arrived in Palestine on 1 October as part of the garrison force in Syria.

On 24 January 1942, William was evacuated again in the 2/3 Australian Field Ambulance suffering an upper respiratory tract infection but returned only one week later. 

Training was continual and on 18 May 1942, Willliam began attending the 9th Australian Division P.R.T. school courses. He returned to his unit on 2 June 1942 at Jdaide, El Alamein.[iii] The following month, on 6 July 1942 the unit moved from Amiriya to battle position in Tel El Shammama, 22 miles from the war front of El Alamein, The following day, they engaged in a ferocious battle to take and defended the high ground at Tile l Elisa.[iv]  A few days later on 9 July 1942 they were in El Alamein.[v]

“The regiment subsequently undertook … the First and Second Battles of El Alamein. These were punctuated by a period of garrison duty in Lebanon between January and June 1942, where the regiment formed part of the occupation force established there after the defeat of Vichy French forces during the Syria-Lebanon Campaign.”[vi]

But by 29 January 1943, William had left the Middle East with his Regiment aboard the transport Ile de France . They were part of the final transference of Australian ground troops from the Middle East to the Pacific and he arrived in Sydney Australia on 28 February.

Australia April 1943-July 1943

After arrival in Australia, the regiment was allowed a brief period of leave. The 2/12th Regiment was re-formed at Kairi, on the Atherton Tablelands in far north Queensland for training in jungle warfare. By 28 July 1943 the 2/12th it was on the move again and embarked at Cairns on “Van Heutz” bound for New Guinea.

New Guinea August 1943 – February 1944

The 2/12th arrived and disembarked in Milne Bay, New Guinea on 4 August 1943 where they trained once again but this time near Port Moresby. The regiment was part of a successful counter-attack against Japanese invasion forces between 31 August and 4 September. They subsequently took part in landings around Lae and then Finschhafen in September, and saw action during the Huon Peninsula campaign.

William sustained a knee injury on 21 September 1943 and was evacuated for medical treatment. He caught malaria on 27 September 1943 and was sent to the 2/9 Australian General Hospital. Like before he moved from one medical facility to another until he recovered.

He was finally discharged on the 8 October 1943 to the 113th Australia Convalescent Depot in Port Moresby, and was sent from there on 24 November 1943 to the 2/2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station [CCS] Depot in Tobruk, New Guinea.

Back to Australia in February 1944

William returned to Australia with his  Regiment on 28 February 1944  on the "Cape Perpetus"  from Finschhafen in New Guinea and disembarked in Brisbane on 7 March 1944. After a well-earned short period of leave, he proceeded to Ravenshoe military camp where the 2nd/12th Field Regiment remained for over a year before seeing action once more.[vii] William did not go back overseas and was discharged on 22 March 1945 at the age of 36 years.

Research Notes

William’s army regiment, the 2nd/12th Field Regiment, was part of the 9th Australian Infantry Division which had been Raised from May to October 1940.[viii]

There are several gaps in William’s World War 2 Army Personnel record possibly when his regiment was engaged in heavy battle. Details have been gleaned from secondary sources listed below: [ix]

  • Order of Battle details for his regiment as outlined on the Australia Government Department of Veteran’s Affairs website.[x]
  • Australian War Memorial page for “2/12th Australian Infantry Battalion” which summarised description & links for further information.[xi]
  • 2/12th Australian Infantry Battalion’s War diaries [xii]
  • Wikipedia page for "2/12th Field Regiment (Australia)"[xiii]
  • The development of Australian Army jungle warfare doctrine and training, 1941-1945.[xiv]

There is also a book entitled “Of Storms and Rainbows: The Story of the Men of the 2/12th Battalion – Volume 1 and Volume 2” by A.L. Graeme-Evans,  1989 (Vol I published 1989 & Vol II published 1991) which is currently out of print but occasionally available online from second-hand dealers and eBay which I have not read but may give a more complete picture of what William experienced.

2nd/12th Field Regiment is an Australian Army artillery regiment and part of the 9th Australia Infantry Division of the Australian Army. 
2/12 Regiment served in action longer than any other Australian Field Regiment in World War II
Formed in 1940 – dissolved in 1946 Served in Second World War, 1939-1945 
Originally known as the 2nd/2nd Medium Regiment, however, became the 2nd/12th Field Regiment 
The regiment participated in the following campaigns as part of the 9th Division AIF: 
  • North African campaign in Libya: the Siege of Tobruk, 1941 
  • Syrian-Lebanon campaign: the battles of El Alamein, 1942 
  • New Guinea Campaign: in Lae & Finschhafen, 1943-44 
  • Borneo campaign: Labuan, British North Borneo, 1945 – William did not participate in this campaign

William received the following medals: 1939/45 Star, Africa Star with 8th Clasp, Pacific Star, Defence Medal & A.S.M

Useful links for background

WikiTree Link William Bassett (1908 - 1980) 

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Sources

[i] Victoria State Government, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria; Marriage certificate of William Bassett & Nance Charlotte Scott married on 27 July  1940 in the Holy Trinity Church [Church of England], Balaclava , Registration number 11407/1940.

[ii] ‘X’ Lists 1939 -1945 | ͏. http://www.commandoveterans.org/x_lists. Accessed 23 Apr. 2022

[iii] Who Was There? A Complete List. Great Reference Tool. http://diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/pages-2aif-cmf/who-was-there.htm . Accessed 25 Apr. 2022.

[iv] #OTD: 9th... - On This Day - Australian Military History. https://www.facebook.com/OTDAustralianMilitaryHistory/photos/a.2318156748224025/3409650112408011/?type=3. Accessed 25 Apr. 2022.

[v] AWM52 4/2/12/10 - [Unit War Diaries, 1939-45 War] Royal Australian Artillery, 2/12 Australian Field Regiment, July - September 1942. //www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2659408 . Accessed 25 Apr. 2022.

[vi] Wikipedia contributors, "2/12th Field Regiment (Australia)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2/12th_Field_Regiment_(Australia)&oldid=1007487555  (accessed April 25, 2022).

[vii] Science, jurisdiction=Queensland; sector=government; corporateName=Department of Environment and. ‘Place’. Queensland WWII Historic Places, 30 June 2014, https://www.ww2places.qld.gov.au/place.

[viii] Larry Maddison member of 2/12th Field Regiment Interviewed on 14th April 2004 Australians at War Film Archive. https://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/archive/1802. Accessed 24 Apr. 2022.

[viii] Siege of Tobruk | Australian War Memorial. https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/tobruk. Accessed 23 Apr. 2022.

[ix] William Bassett Service record SERN VX21203 NAA: B883, VX21203, National Archives of Australia

[x] Affairs, Department of Veterans’. ‘Infantry’. CLIK, https://clik.dva.gov.au/history-library/part-3-order-battle/ch-1-order-battle-army/s-5-headquarters-1-australian-corps/infantry . Accessed 23 Apr. 2022.

[xii] Australia War Memorial, Unit War Diaries, 1939-45 War for Royal Australian Artillery, 2/12 Australian Field Regiment from October 1940 to 1945 https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search?collection=true&facet_type=Digitised%20Collection&facet_related_units=2/12th%20Field%20Regiment . Accessed 23 Apr. 2022.

[xiii] Wikipedia contributors, "2/12th Field Regiment (Australia)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2/12th_Field_Regiment_(Australia)&oldid=1007487555 (accessed April 23, 2022).

[xiv] Threlfall, Adrian (2008) The development of Australian Army jungle warfare doctrine and training, 1941-1945. PhD thesis, Victoria University. [https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19393/ : accessed 24 April 2022]

Tuesday 19 April 2022

Alfred Ellis Bootmaker

Alfred lived in and around Peckham in London England. He was a bootmaker by trade and ran a specialist shop with the help of employed staff. He sold gents, ladies and children’s boots. He repaired soles and heals, and sold “nugget” polishes to help keep shoes in good order.

Alfred in apron outside his shop in Peckham London with two unknown people [T233]

In 1894 Alfred moved his business from 245 St George’s road to new premises at 118 Commercial Road, Peckham (pictured above) not wanting to lose business he seems to have run both shops simultaneously for at least a year as can be seen by his listing in the local London directory.[i]

From 1894 until his death Alfred lived and worked at 118 Commercial roads in Peckham until his death in 1912.[ii] [iii] [iv] [v] [vi] [vii] [viii] [ix] [x] [xi] [xii] [xiii] [xiv] [xv] [xvi] [xvii]

In the 1901 Census, Alfred and his wife were living either on top of or behind the shop at 118 Commercial Road with their two youngest children. [xviii]

  1.          Alfred Ellis, aged 61, working as a Boot & Leather boot seller (employer)
  2.          Mary Ellis, his wife aged 49
  3.          Millie Ellis, his daughter aged 15, working as a Clerk (mission? or mason? work)
  4.          Hugh Ellis, his Son, aged 13

By the 1911 Census, Alfred was aged 71, his wife and only one of his children, Millie, were still at the same address in Peckham.[xix]

Alfred died in 1912, what happened to shop after this date is not known.[xx]

Useful Links

WikiTree Link Alfred Ellis (1839 - 1912)

This post is part of Sepia Saturday 617 : 16 April 2022

Useful Background

Shop, T. S. R. \. K. (2021, February 19). MILITARY AMMO BOOTS! - Parade Boots get Hob Nails & Horseshoes | RAF Shoe Repair [Video]. YouTube.( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud2x2X9WMpM&feature=youtu.be : accessed 21 April 2022)


Riello, Giorgio; (2002) The boot and shoe trades in London and Paris in the long eighteenth century. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), University of London [https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1317575 : accessed 21 April 2022]

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[i] Kelly’s London Suburban Directory. 1894 Southern Suburbs Directory, Alphabetic Entry for Alfred Ellis in the Commercial section page 555, Column 2

[ii] 1894 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham; entry #324 on page 9; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[iii] 1895 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, nature of qualification house at 118 Commercial road, Peckham entry #351 page 10; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[iv] 1896 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, entry #318 on page 10; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[v] 1897 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, nature of qualification house at 118 Commercial road; entry #334 on page 10; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[vi] 1898 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, nature of qualification house at 118 Commercial road, entry #369 on page 11; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[vii] 1899 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, nature of qualification house at 118 Commercial road, entry #391 on page 11; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[viii] 1900 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, nature of qualification house at 118 Commercial road, entry #392 on page 12; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[ix] 1902 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, entry #1113, page 43; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[x] 1903 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, entry  # 1092, page 40 Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[xi] 1904 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, entry #1130 page 44; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[xii] 1906 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, entry #1171, page 43; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[xiii] 1907 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, nature of qualification Dwelling house at 118 Commercial road, entry #1555 page 56; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[xiv] 1908 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, entry #1546 page 58; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[xv] 1910 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, entry #2473 page 97; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[xvi] 1911 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, entry #2690 page 106; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[xvii] 1912 Electoral register listing for Alfred Ellis, residing at 118 Commercial road, Peckham, entry #2835, page 116; Ancestry.com. London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers

[xviii] Ancestry.com. 1901 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data:Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Household of Alfred Ellis 118 Commerical rd, Peckham citing The National Archives, RG13; Piece: 504; Folio: 159; Page: 32, Enumeration District: 06

[xix] Ancestry.com. 1911 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011; Household of Alfred Ellis 118 Commerical rd, Peckham citing The National Archives, RG14, Piece 2555, Enumeration District Number 27

[xx] General Register Office, England, Death Certificate Alfred Ellis Reference Deaths Jun 1912, District Chelsea