Wilfred Ellershaw

Brigadier-General Wilfred Ellershaw (1871-1916) was a British Army officer who served as Aide-de-Camp to Lord Kitchener during the First World War.

Ellershaw was the son of Reverend John Ellershaw. He was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire. He married Catherine Ingles, daughter of Rear-Admiral John Ingles and Catherine Sophia Glennie, on 22 June 1899. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery, and rose to the rank of brigadier-general. He served as a staff officer in the First World War and became the Aide-de-Camp to the British Filed Marshall, Lord Kitchener.

Ellershaw died alongside Kitchener on 5 June 1916 when the boat he was on, HMS Hampshire, was torpedoed by a German U-boat at Scapa Flow.