Name
Arthur James Elliott
28 June 1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/06/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
A/22447
Canadian Infantry
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 24
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Arthur James Elliott was born in Boxmoor, nr Berkhamsted, Herts on 28 June 1887, the son of James and Sarah Elliott.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at High Street, Berkhamsted, and his father was working as a sawyer. By 1901 he was not living with his parents at 7 Gossoms End, Berkhamsted.
He emigrated to Canada (date unknown) and stated that he was working as a machinist on enlistment. He declared on his attestation paper that he had been in the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment for four years.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted on 7 December 1914 at Winnipeg, Manitoba to serve with the Canadian Expeditionary Force and sailed on 1 June 1915 on S S Grampian from Montreal to England. He was drafted to the 8th Battalion on 7 July 1915 and taken on strength in the field on 24 July 1915.
He was killed in action on 14 June 1916. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His parents were not eligible for a gratuity but his mother received pay owing of $125 .74 (Canadian dollars).
N.B. His date of birth on Canadian records is shown as 1886, but he is listed on the birth index as the Jul-Sept quarter of 1887 in Hemel Hempstead district (includes Boxmoor and Berkhamsted). A date of birth of 28 June would mean the birth was unlikely to be registered until the following quarter. On the 1891 Census (taken in April) he is recorded as 3 years old and would have been 4 later in the year.
His parents moved to Wendover, Hants
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.bac-lac.gc.ca
