Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 12/07/1916
- Place of Enlistment
- Goulburn NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 11/01/1884
- Place of Birth
- Gundaroo NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Gundaroo NSW
- School(s) Attended
- Gundaroo Public School
- Occupation
- Drover
- Next of Kin
- Son of John Elliott and Eliza Sarah (nee Bray) Elliott of Gundaroo NSW.
- Burial Place
South Africa 171 Woltemade Cemetery Cape Town
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 2893
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 56 Battalion AIF
Fate
Died of sickness, Cape Town, South Africa, 6 December 1916
Commemoration
AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 162, Canberra ACT
Gundaroo War Memorial, corner of Cork Street and Harp Street, Gundaroo NSW
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT
Notes
The only evidence of Elliott's connection with Canberra is the St. John's Church Roll of Honour published in Frederick W. Robinson's 'Canberra's First Hundred Years'. Elliott came from Gundaroo which, at the time, was part of St. John's parish.
He embarked in Sydney on the HMAT Ascanius with the 7th reinforcements to the 56th Battalion on 25 October 1916 but contracted cerebro spinal meningitis while on board. He died at the City Infectious Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa on 6 December 1916.
Description - height 5 feet 9¾ inches, weight 140 pounds, chest 34-36 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England
Sources
St. John the Baptist's Church, Canberra, Roll of Honour, in Frederick W. Robinson, Canberra's First Hundred Years, Sydney, W.C. Penfold (p.63)
AWM Roll of Honour Database
First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
Peter Procter, Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan, Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001 (p.92)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Queanbeyan Age - 25 July 1916, 19 December 1916
Monaro Pioneers Index - www.monaropioneers.com/ pioneers.htm