Name
Henry Ernest Elliott (MC)
28/07/1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/03/1919
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Garrison Artillery
152nd Heavy Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
XII. D. 18.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
LIFE'S CROWN WELL WON THEN COMETH REST DEEPLY LOVED & MOURNED
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, St Clemence Church Memorial, Turnford, Not on the Wormley memorials*1, Eastbourne Collage Roll of Honour
Pre War
We believe this to be the H. E. Elliott on the Cheshunt War Memorial
Henry Ernest Elliott was born in King’s Norton, Birmingham, Worcestershire on 28th July 1884, son of Henry John Elliott a, Company Secretary and Annette Elizabeth Elliott (nee Barnett). The eldest of eight children.
He was Baptised on 12th September 1884, at St Mary’s Church, Selly Oak, Worcestershire.
1891 Census records Henry Jr. aged 6, living with his parents, three brothers and sister Lorna (5), in Falcon Hill, Kings Norton, Worcestershire. The family had four live-in Domestic Servant, a Nurse, under Nurse, House Maid, and a Cook.
Henry attended Eastbourne Collage, Eastbourne, Sussex. He was in Gonville House.
1901 Census records Henry Jr. aged 16, living with his parents, three brothers and sister Lorna (15), the family are now living in Woodridings, Pinner, Middlesex. The family have a live-in Governess, a cook and two housemaids.
Henry Jr. married Gladys Isabel Sowter, the daughter of Unwin and Clara Sowter of Derby, Derbyshire, on 18th September 1910, at St Alkmund’s Church, Derby. They went on to have one son Henry Lawrence Unwin Elliott born in 1912.
1911 Census records Henry Jr. as married to Gladys, they are living at, The Elms, Oakhill Avenue, Pinner, Middlesex. Henrys occupation is given as a Helmet Manufacturer for the Police and Fire Service. His brother-in-Law Lionel Sowter is living with them, and they have a live-in Domestic Servant.
In 1911 his parents were living in Nunsbury, Turnford, Herts.
Wartime Service
Henry’s early war service is not known.
He was commissioned to the 147th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) in April 1915, arriving in France in May 1916, he was promoted Captain in the field after the taking of Vimy Ridge in April 1917. Henry was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in action. At the end of the war Henry was part of the Army of Occupation in Germany. While serving with the 152nd Heavy Battery, RGA, he contracted Bronchial Pneumonia and died on 2nd March 1919, in Bonn Germany.
He is buried in the CWGC Cologne Southern Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Additional Information
His effects of £195-19s-9d, went to his solicitors.
His father, Mr. H. J. Elliott, Upperton, Crawley, Sussex. ordered his headstone inscription: "LIFE'S CROWN WELL WON THEN COMETH REST DEEPLY LOVED & MOURNED". Henry and his brother Philip are also commemorated on the family headstone in Wormley (St. Laurence) Churchyard. Their inscription reads:
IN LOVING AND REVERED MEMORY OFF OUR ELDEST AND FIFTH SONS
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR.
HENRY ERNEST ELLIOTT, MC., R.G.A. WHO DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE MARCH 2ND 1919, AGE 34 AND WAS BURIED AT COLOGNE.
AND
PHILIP MORRIS ELLIOT, MIDDX. REG. WHO FELL AT LA BOISELLE, JULY 1ST 1916, AGED 22. BURIED IN ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY.
SO THEY PASSED OVER AND ALL THE TRUMPETS SOUNDED FOR THEM? ON? OTHER SIDE
His younger brother 2nd Lieutenant Philip Maurice Elliott was killed in action on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
On 2nd May 1923, Gladys married Edward Walker M.C., R.A.M.C., at St James, Paddington, London.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
