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Sgt. Herbert Nellis
British Army 5th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
(d.28th May 1940)
Herbert Nellis is my paternal grandfather and was killed in action, during the fall of France in 1940. He is buried in Bus House Cemetery, outside Ypres.
His brother served in the Royal Artillery and was a Prisoner of War to the Japanese after he was captured during the fall of Singapore, he survived inhuman treatment.