CORPORAL CHARLES ELLERINGTON

KILLED ON THE ILLUSTRIOUS

Word has been received from the War Office by Mr. and Mrs. Ellerington of 12 Broomhill Avenue, Knottingley, that their elder son, Corporal Charles Ellerington attached to the Fleet Air Arm of the R.A.F., was killed on the 10th of January by enemy action while on the Aircraft Carrier 'Illustrious' which had been the victim of repeated attacks by enemy air raiders.

Corporal Ellerington was 23 years of age and had six years service with the R.A.F. three and a half of which were spent abroad. Before joining the force he was employed at the glassworks of Messr's Bagley and Company, Knottingley, for some three years. He had served also on H.M.S. Eagle and had visited many parts of the world during the course of his voyages.

He was regarded as a very promising young man and had many friends both in and out of the service. His younger brother Jack, aged 20, is a rifleman in the Cameronians, went to France with the B.E.F., and was evacuated from Dunkirk. His father swerved in France with the K.O.Y.L.I. in the Great War and lost a leg there.

From The Pontefract and Castleford Express, February 1941

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