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Surname: ELLIOTT
Forename(s): Percy
Place of Birth: Silsden, Yorkshire
Service No: 267857
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1/6th Battalion
Division: 49th (West Riding) Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1917-10-14
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: VIII. I. 54.
CWGC Cemetery: BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Percy Elliott (born 6 January 1895) was the son of Joseph and Sarah Ann Elliott, née Laycock. Joseph was born at Darwen, Lancashire and Sarah at Silsden, Yorkshire.
1901 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 12, Russell Street - Percy Elliott, aged 6 years, born Silsden, Yorkshire, son of Sarah Elliott (married).
1911 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 6, Back Water Street - Percy Elliott, aged 16 years, born Silsden, Yorkshire. [Percy and his brother Frank were living with their sister, Margaret Alice and brother-in-law, John Sugden Mooney, who served in the Great War and became a prisoner of war.]
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Percy Elliott, 267857, West Riding Regiment.
See also: ‘Guiseley Terriers: A Small Part in The Great War – A History of the 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment’ by Stephen Barber (2018).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
ELLIOTT, Herbert, aged 22, West Riding Regiment, brother of Mrs. J.S. Mooney, 16, Back Water Street, Skipton, died of wounds Oct. 14, 1917.
ELLIOTT, Percy. [Additional]
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Private Percy ELLIOTT
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 49th (West Riding) Division
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