who was the last british soldier killed in ww2
11 November 1918
title: Thomas Priday text: Thomas Priday Thomas William Priday was the first British soldier to be killed in action during the Second World War. The son of Allen L. Priday and Elisabeth A. Priday of The Gravel Pits, Redmarley in Gloucestershire, he died at the age of 27 while serving as a Corporal with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in France. Following the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France on Nazi Germany on 3 September 1939 a British Expeditionary Force under the command of Lord Gort was sent to France. Although technical personnel had been arriving since September 4, the force title: George Edwin Ellison text: a poem, "Goodnight Kiss", by writer Philip Parker. Leeds Civic Trust and partners are to unveil a memorial plaque to him at Leeds Central railway station in November 2018 and, as of September 2018, were running a crowd-funder campaign to that end. George Edwin Ellison George Edwin Ellison (10 August 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. Ellison was born in York and later title: Thomas Priday text: by the French General in command of the area as well as a detachment of French troops. His death was reported in The Times on 1 January 1940 under the headline 'First British Soldier Killed in Action'. Priday's younger brother Archibald served with the same battalion. His family reside in Gloucestershire. Thomas Priday Thomas William Priday was the first British soldier to be killed in action during the Second World War. The son of Allen L. Priday and Elisabeth A. Priday of The Gravel Pits, Redmarley in Gloucestershire, he died at the age of 27 while serving as a Corporal title: Theodore Schurch text: Theodore Schurch Theodore William John Schurch (5 May 1918 – 4 January 1946) was a British soldier of Anglo-Swiss parentage who was executed under the Treachery Act 1940 after the end of World War II. He was the last person to be executed in Britain for an offence other than murder. Schurch was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Hammersmith, London, while his Swiss father was living in Britain. During his late teens, Schurch was a member of the British Union of Fascists. In 1936, he enlisted in the British Army as a Royal Army Service Corps driver. During June 1942 title: George Edwin Ellison text: George Edwin Ellison George Edwin Ellison (10 August 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. Ellison was born in York and later lived in Leeds, England. Early in 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