Captain Dennis Ely, 15th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, 1915 (c)

Photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1915 (c).

Dennis Herbert James Ely was killed in action at Fricourt on the Somme on 2 July 1916. His unit, the 15th Durham Light Infantry, was raised at Newcastle in September 1914 as part of 64th Brigade. It landed at Boulogne in September 1915.