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Capt. Arthur Kellas
British Army 89th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.6th Aug 1915)
Captain Arthur Kellas was killed by a sniper's bullet at Lancaster Landing, Gallipoli on 6th August 1915.
I have come across letters to his mother and brother (obviously originally hand-written but subsequently typed some years later) sent by one "Thos Fraser". There is also a handwritten "In Memoriam" poem in his honour written by one George Stephen in August 1917. There is also an envelope with some colours in it. My mother passed away six years ago aged 96 and these were in a bundle of her family papers. Her maiden name was Ross. Her forebears came from Caithness and Halkirk. Her grandfather sailed to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1861. The name Kellas does not feature in the Ross family tree but there may have been some connection as the above papers are contained in a handwritten envelope post-marked "Aberdeen 4 JA 17" (which I take to mean 4th January 1917) addressed to "Miss Zeala Ross, Morven, Newington Ave, Dunedin, New Zealand." Zeala was my great-aunt. There is no reference to "Thos Fraser" in any family records I can find.
The purpose of this message is to see if there is any record of descendants of Captain Kellas to whom I can send the papers and, perhaps, find out what the connection was.
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