Name
Philip Maurice Elliott
28/03/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ADANAC MILITARY CEMETERY, MIRAUMONT
VII. H. 39.
France
Headstone Inscription
LOVING ALL HE WAS BELOVED BY ALL
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial,
St. Clements Church Memorial, Turnford,
Not on the Wormley memorials*1
Eastbourne Collage Roll of Honour
Pre War
We believe this to be the P. M. Elliott on the Cheshunt War Memorial
Philip Maurice Elliott was born in Kings Norton, Birmingham, Worcestershire, on 28th March 1894, son of Henry John Elliott a, Company Director and Annette Elizabeth Mary Elliott (nee Barnett). One of eight children.
1901 Census records Philip aged 7, living with his parents and four siblings, Henry (16), Lorna (15), Edward (13) and William (3), Woodridings, Pinner, Middlesex. The family had a live-in Governess, Cook and two Housemaids.
Philip attended Eastbourne Collage, Eastbourne, Sussex. He was a member of Gonville House.
1911 Census records Philip aged 17, a pupil at Eastbourne Collage, Eastbourne, Sussex. His parents and six siblings are now living in Nunsbury, Turnford, Herts.
Wartime Service
Philip enlisted in the 28th (County of London) Battalion (Artist Rifles) with the service number 1420, in August 1914, at their HQ. 17 Duke’s Road, St Pancras, London. The Battalion was mobilized for war and moved to St Albans, Herts. Leaving for France on 26th October 1914, arriving at Bailleul, France, on 28th October 1914, and establish an Officer Training Corps there.
Henry was Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant to the 3rd Battalion (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment in February 1915. He was wounded at the Second Battle of Ypres (22nd April – 25th May 1915) and invalided home. On his return to France, in December 1915, it is believed he was posted to the 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment.
Philip was Killed in Action on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. (1st July – 18th Nov 1916)
Additional Information
His body was found at map reference 57d. X. 14. a. 4. 3., the body was identified by his disc.
His father, Mr. H. J. Elliott, Upperton, Crawley, Sussex., ordered his headstone inscription: "LOVING ALL HE WAS BELOVED BY ALL". Philip and his brother Henry 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 elder brother Captain Henry Ernest Elliott, died of Bronchial Pneumonia on 2nd March 1919, in Bonn, Germany, while serving with the Army of Occupation in Germany.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
