Wilfred Ellershaw

Brigadier General Wilfred Ellershaw was a British Army officer who served as aide-de-camp to Lord Kitchener.

Early life and family

Ellershaw was the son of Reverend John Ellershaw. He was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire. He married Katherine Ingles, daughter of Rear-Admiral John Ingles and Catherine Sophia Glennie, on 22 June 1899.

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.
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.
Ellershaw is commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial of Hollybrook Cemetery, located in Shirley, Southampton.