| Regimental number | 303 |
| Place of birth | Plymouth, Devonshire, England |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Electric motor driver |
| Address | 'Minto', Morden Street, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Marital status | Married |
| Age at embarkation | 24 |
| Height | 5' 9.5" |
| Weight | 141 lbs |
| Next of kin | Mrs D S Elliot, 'Minto', Morden Street, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Previous military service | Served in the Cadets for 4 years; served in the AN&MEF. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Rank on enlistment | Sergeant |
| Unit name | Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force (Tropical Unit), C Company |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/112/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A35 Berrima on |
| Regimental number from Nominal Roll | Commissioned |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Lieutenant |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 35th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 125 |
| Other details |
War service: embarked from Sydney, 19 August 1914. Granted extra duty pay of 4/- per day whilst employed in Native Affairs Department, Rabaul, 1 January 1915. Promoted 2nd Lt (provisional) and whilst employed on Administrative Work, 1 September 1915. Proceeded to Australia on furlough, 31 January 1916. Enlisted in AIF, 20 April 1916. Embarked from Sydney, 25 October 1916; disembarked Devonport, 28 December 1916. Admitted to Fargo Hospital, 12 February 1917 (influenza); discharged, 19 February 1917. Marched into 9th Training Bn, 20 February 1917. On command at School of Instruction, Tidworth, 23 April 1917. Promoted Lt, 26 June 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 11 July 1917; taken on strength, 35th Bn, 18 July 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 12 October 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
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Campbell, ACT 2600
