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Able Seaman MELVIN NEWTON ELLIS

Service Number: V/50983
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve

H.M.C.S. Skeena.

Date of Death

Died 25 October 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REYKJAVIK (FOSSVOGUR) CEMETERY

C49. 34.

Iceland

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Alvin and Elizabeth Ellis, of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription ASLEEP IN JESUS
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Buried or commemorated at

REYKJAVIK (FOSSVOGUR) CEMETERY
Iceland
Number of casualties: 216
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