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Captain Albert Ellwood MC

Captain Albert Ellwood, a coloured photograph produced after his death, with the medal ribbons for the Military Cross, 1914/15 Star, British War and Allied Victory Medals, painted on.
Accession Number: KO3053/01

Military Cross awarded to Captain Albert Ellwood.
Accession Number: KO0922/01

Photograph of grave of Captain Albert Ellwood supplied by the War Graves Commission to his next of kin.
Accession Number: KO0922/02

Officers' Record of Service of Captain Albert Ellwood.
Accession Number: KO0922/03

Memorial painting dedicated to Captain Albert Ellwood MC.
Accession Number: KO0922/04

Accession Number: KO0922/04

Gallant Conduct Card, 55th West Lancashire Division, to Captain Albert Ellwood MC.
Accession Number: KO0922/05

    
The grave of Captain Albert Ellwood, MC, of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  Albert Ellwood had volunteered for service with the 5th Battalion in September 1914, he went overseas with the 1st/5th Battalion on 14th February 1915 and was commissioned in August 1916.  In 1917 he was transferred to the 1st/4th Battalion and was killed in action with them on 14th April 1918 during the fighting at Givenchy.
He is buried in Vielle Chapelle New Military Cemetery, Lacouture.
The 1st/4th Battalion was part of the 55th West Lancashire Division and the Divisional Graves Identification Fund had been established to pay for enamel discs bearing the divisional badge (the red rose and two leafy stems) and the legend 'They Win or Die Those Who Wear the Rose of Lancaster."
Accession Number: KO0922/06 & Example of Enamel Plaque, Accession Number: KO2588/01

War Graves Commission letter concerning the location of the grave of Captain Albert Ellwood MC.
Accession Number: KO0922/07

Commemorative Scroll to Captain Albert Ellwood MC.
Accession Number: KO1386/01

Framed Memorial plaque to Captain Albert Ellwood MC, of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, killed in action on the 14th April 1918.
Accession Number: KO1386/02

Private Henry Thomas Ashmore, 1st/4th King’s Own, 28th July 1917.  Watercolour by Captain Albert Ellwood MC.
Private Ashmore is dressed for battle as a number 2 of a Lewis Gun team of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  Believed to be Private Henry Thomas Ashmore, number 201429, from Bolton, who enlisted on 18th February 1916, was wounded in November 1917 and discharged on 21st February 1919.
Accession Number: KO0688/01

Another copy of Private Henry Thomas Ashmore, 1st/4th King’s Own, 28th July 1917.  Watercolour by Captain Albert Ellwood MC.
Private Ashmore is dressed for battle as a number 2 of a Lewis Gun team of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.  Believed to be Private Henry Thomas Ashmore, number 201429, from Bolton, who enlisted on 18th February 1916, was wounded in November 1917 and discharged on 21st February 1919.
Accession Number: KO2401/01

Pen and Ink Sketch 'Going in' by Captain Albert Ellwood.
Accession Number: KO2401/02

Pen and Ink Sketch 'Coming out' by Captain Albert Ellwood.
Accession Number: KO2401/03

Tracing paper pencil drawing of Private Henry Thomas Ashmore, 1917.
Accession Number: KO2401/04

Captain Albert Ellwood MC, 1st/4th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. With coloured painted medal ribbons, showing those of the Military Cross, 1914/15 Star, British War and Allied Victory Medal.
Photograph by G Wynspeare Herbert of Lancaster.
Accession Number: KO3053/01

Note book with hand written diary for Jan 1905 to 16 Apr 1905 and other notes throughout the book, written by Albert Ellwood. No military or regimental connection.
Accession Number: KO3053/02

Note book named to Private A Ellwood, 2232, 5th King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, St. George’s Hospital.
The book contains a of pencil sketches of people, circa 1913. And others noted as “The Bath Chair Man”; a King’s Own officer; the back of a soldier wearing a cap; “Didcot Oct 1914”; a rough sketch of Skerton Bridge and Lancaster Castle in the background; “man seen at Harve”; “the postman at Winnegeele” and “Marie, of the “Petit Gateaux, Winnegeele, Shop”. Sketch loosely inserted “our first Barn billet, Winnigeeele”
Starting the book from the other end, there is a diary from Sunday 14 Feb 1915 to Tuesday 4 May 1915, covering approx 42 pages until Ellwood writes “wounded and out of action with shrapnel bullet. Sent home and obtained commissioned in 1st/4th KORLR.
Accession Number: KO3053/03

Postcard addressed to Cadet A Ellwood, of D Coy 5th Cadet Battalion, Trinity College, Cambridge, from 5th Reserve Battalion, KORLR, Park Hall Camp, Oswestry, dated 20 Apr 1916 from Major W D ????
Accession Number: KO3053/04

Hand written document “A few hints on Guide work and the making and reading of sketch maps.” Written by Private A Ellwood. 26 pages of hand written in blue and red ink. Clearly written in 1915 after Ellwood had experience of the trenches in Belgium, with the 1st/5th Battalion of the King’s Own.
Accession Number: KO3053/05

Pencil drawing on tracing paper with a Scotsman wearing traditional dress and holding a book case of books, with ‘LANR YMCA’ on his sleeve above two crossed flags. The wording is “Presentation to W Ross Esq Wednesday Jan 18th [05] A Welcoming Concert will be rendered to be followed by a Lecture of Chivalry by W Ross”
This suggests that it actually relates to Wednesday 18 Jan 1905.
The diary, ko3053/02 records the event:
“After tea I went down to the YMCA to the Presentation to Mr Ross. The Ceremony was opened by a “Sankey”, then a scotch song by W A H Johnson, then addressed Presentation by Chairman (H Wright) cashier of Lancaster Banking Co. Ltd; the seconding of presentation by my friend, and further remarks by A Dodd (late of USA). After all this Mr Ross returned compliments and honoured me by saying he would take my cartoon home with him. These flatteries finished he proceeded to deliver a splendid lecture on “Chivalry” and from the following illustration which he gave I thought I might at some future period, paint an excellent picture:- Title “Arise Sir Knight”.
Scene: A church altar before which a newly made knight kneels, and the Bishop lightly tapping him on the head repeats the word of the title and name several of the saints. The knight is clothed in a black robe as a token of fidelity even unto death, and his new armour lies upon the altar.
Time: Break of morn on the time of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table.
I have made up my mind that I will endeavour to carry out the above picture.
As soon as Mr Ross had finished his lecture I bid him “good night” and went to Brock Street to a social there. Stayed there till 10.20 and then returned home. Went to bed at 1045.
Accession Number: KO3053/06

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