Notes
He is listed on the memorial as having been a scholar at the school. The school website (see References) states: ‘Lieutenant Cyrus Eller was the son of John Henry and Harriet Elizabeth Eller of 58, Old Road, Dukinfield. John was an Assurance Agent and Harriett, a Schoolmistress from Bristol. Cyrus had a brother John Shirley and a sister Lilian. Cyrus attended the Moravian School, Dukinfield, also Ashton Secondary School and then went to Manchester University gaining a Bsc in Science. At University he was an officer in the training corps and co-founder of the Dukinfield Volunteer Corps. He served at Egypt Gallipoli, where he won commendations from the Brigadier and the Colonel for picking up live grenades that had fallen from the catapult. Cyrus died of wounds received at Havrincourt on 30th May 1917. He had been out on a night patrol with a bombing party and got ambushed by a German patrol, he told his men to scatter independently while he drew fire. He was found badly wounded and died on his way to a German hospital. Prior to his death in Germany, Cyrus had only recently married Amy Gladys Wilson at Ashton Baptist Church on Welbeck Street in 1916 AP8/1/39. He is also commemorated at Manchester University Memorial in the quadrangle of John Owen’s Building on Oxford Road, and listed on the Dukinfield War Memorial at Chapel Hill.
His brother Shirley also served, and died of ill health on 2nd January 1919, he had been working on the Government’s Seaplane design unit at Cowes as he wasn’t fit for front line service, having been turned down 14 times through bad eyesight.'