Background
Ellershaw was the son of Reverend John Ellershaw.
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Ellershaw was the son of Reverend John Ellershaw.
He was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire.
He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery. Between 1899 and 1906 he was an instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He subsequently rose to the rank of brigadier-general.
During the First World War he served as Special Service Officer at the War Office and became the Aide-de-Camp to the British Filed Marshall, Lord Kitchener.
Ellershaw died alongside Kitchener on 5 June 1916 when the ship he was on, HMS Hampshire, was torpedoed by a German U-boat shortly after leaving Scapa Flow.