<Li> Battle of Loos </Li> <Li> Battle of Cambrai </Li> <P> George Edwin Ellison (1878--11 November 1918) was the last British soldier to be killed in action during the First World War . He died at 09: 30 am (90 minutes before the armistice came into effect) while on a patrol on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium . </P> <P> Ellison came from Leeds, England . Early in his life, he joined the British Army as a regular soldier but had left by 1912 when he was married to Hannah Maria Burgan and had become a coal miner . Sometime just before the outbreak of war he was recalled to the army, joining the 5th Royal Irish Lancers, serving in the army at the start of the war . He fought at the Battle of Mons in 1914, and several other battles including the Battle of Ypres, Battle of Armentières, Battle of La Bassée, Battle of Lens, Battle of Loos, and Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front . </P>

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