Ka cika wannan magana: An haifi Ellison a birnin York kuma daga baya ya zauna a birnin Leeds, a ƙasar Ingila. Ya fara shiga rundunar sojojin Burtaniya a matsayin soja na yau da kullun a 1902 <unk> amma ya bar ta 1912, lokacin da ya zama mai hakar kwal, kuma lokacin da ya auri Hannah Maria Burgan a Nottingham. Wani lokaci kafin barkewar yaki an sake kiran sa zuwa sojojin, ya shiga 5th Royal Irish Lancers kuma ya yi aiki a cikin sojojin daga farkon yakin. Ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙin Mons a shekara ta 1914, da kuma wasu yaƙe-yaƙe da yawa ciki har da Yaƙin Ypres, Yaƙin Armentières,
Yaƙin La Bassée, Yaƙin Lens, Yaƙin Loos, da Yaƙin Cambrai a Yankin Yamma.