Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), 6th Battalion
Country of Service: United Kingdom
Died: 1st July 1916
Age: 20 years old.
Eric was born in Southsea, Hampshire in 1896. He was the son of James Thomas Jellicoe and Lilian Sophia Pauline Jellicoe (née Sowerby). Eric had an older sister Lilian Agnes Nooruz who had been born in 1895 in Italy. Their father was a retired Deputy Conservator of Forests for the Indian Forest Service. The family lived with one domestic servant at Forest Lodge, Owls Road, Bournemouth. Eric was educated at Sangeen School, Derby Road, Bournemouth where he was a boarder.
During WW1 Eric served with the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant from the 3rd October 1914 and as a Lieutenant from the 22nd March 1915. He went to France on the 12th August 1915.
Eric was killed in action at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The attack on the Gommecourt Salient on July the 1st 1916 was a British operation against the northern flank of the German 2nd Army. The operation was intended to divert German artillery and reinforcements away from the main action.
Buried in Foncquevillers Military Cemetery in France Eric is also commemorated on a memorial at St Clement's Church in Bournemouth.
N.B.
In 2020, a silver cigarette case turned up in a small collection of antique silver and 'objects of vertu'. The stirling silver case hallmarked 1910 bore the engraved name of Maitland Jellicoe and was purchased from an Italian dealer in an Antique market.
(Sources: CWGC, Ancestry, Find My Past, IWM, National Archives, Newspaper Archives)
(Bio: Woose)
Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), 6th Battalion
Country of Service: United Kingdom
Died: 1st July 1916
Age: 20 years old.
Eric was born in Southsea, Hampshire in 1896. He was the son of James Thomas Jellicoe and Lilian Sophia Pauline Jellicoe (née Sowerby). Eric had an older sister Lilian Agnes Nooruz who had been born in 1895 in Italy. Their father was a retired Deputy Conservator of Forests for the Indian Forest Service. The family lived with one domestic servant at Forest Lodge, Owls Road, Bournemouth. Eric was educated at Sangeen School, Derby Road, Bournemouth where he was a boarder.
During WW1 Eric served with the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant from the 3rd October 1914 and as a Lieutenant from the 22nd March 1915. He went to France on the 12th August 1915.
Eric was killed in action at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The attack on the Gommecourt Salient on July the 1st 1916 was a British operation against the northern flank of the German 2nd Army. The operation was intended to divert German artillery and reinforcements away from the main action.
Buried in Foncquevillers Military Cemetery in France Eric is also commemorated on a memorial at St Clement's Church in Bournemouth.
N.B.
In 2020, a silver cigarette case turned up in a small collection of antique silver and 'objects of vertu'. The stirling silver case hallmarked 1910 bore the engraved name of Maitland Jellicoe and was purchased from an Italian dealer in an Antique market.
(Sources: CWGC, Ancestry, Find My Past, IWM, National Archives, Newspaper Archives)
(Bio: Woose)
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), 6th Battalion
Country of Service: United Kingdom
Died: 1st July 1916
Age: 20 years old.
Eric was born in Southsea, Hampshire in 1896. He was the son of James Thomas Jellicoe and Lilian Sophia Pauline Jellicoe (née Sowerby). Eric had an older sister Lilian Agnes Nooruz who had been born in 1895 in Italy. Their father was a retired Deputy Conservator of Forests for the Indian Forest Service. The family lived with one domestic servant at Forest Lodge, Owls Road, Bournemouth. Eric was educated at Sangeen School, Derby Road, Bournemouth where he was a boarder.
During WW1 Eric served with the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant from the 3rd October 1914 and as a Lieutenant from the 22nd March 1915. He went to France on the 12th August 1915.
Eric was killed in action at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The attack on the Gommecourt Salient on July the 1st 1916 was a British operation against the northern flank of the German 2nd Army. The operation was intended to divert German artillery and reinforcements away from the main action.
Buried in Foncquevillers Military Cemetery in France Eric is also commemorated on a memorial at St Clement's Church in Bournemouth.
N.B.
In 2020, a silver cigarette case turned up in a small collection of antique silver and 'objects of vertu'. The stirling silver case hallmarked 1910 bore the engraved name of Maitland Jellicoe and was purchased from an Italian dealer in an Antique market.
(Sources: CWGC, Ancestry, Find My Past, IWM, National Archives, Newspaper Archives)
(Bio: Woose)
Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), 6th Battalion
Country of Service: United Kingdom
Died: 1st July 1916
Age: 20 years old.
Eric was born in Southsea, Hampshire in 1896. He was the son of James Thomas Jellicoe and Lilian Sophia Pauline Jellicoe (née Sowerby). Eric had an older sister Lilian Agnes Nooruz who had been born in 1895 in Italy. Their father was a retired Deputy Conservator of Forests for the Indian Forest Service. The family lived with one domestic servant at Forest Lodge, Owls Road, Bournemouth. Eric was educated at Sangeen School, Derby Road, Bournemouth where he was a boarder.
During WW1 Eric served with the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant from the 3rd October 1914 and as a Lieutenant from the 22nd March 1915. He went to France on the 12th August 1915.
Eric was killed in action at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The attack on the Gommecourt Salient on July the 1st 1916 was a British operation against the northern flank of the German 2nd Army. The operation was intended to divert German artillery and reinforcements away from the main action.
Buried in Foncquevillers Military Cemetery in France Eric is also commemorated on a memorial at St Clement's Church in Bournemouth.
N.B.
In 2020, a silver cigarette case turned up in a small collection of antique silver and 'objects of vertu'. The stirling silver case hallmarked 1910 bore the engraved name of Maitland Jellicoe and was purchased from an Italian dealer in an Antique market.
(Sources: CWGC, Ancestry, Find My Past, IWM, National Archives, Newspaper Archives)
(Bio: Woose)
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