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Denis Elliott . British Army 1st Royal Tank Regiment My father, Denis Elliott, served with the 1st Royal Tank Regiment in the war. He was taken prisoner on Good Friday, 1945 and was held for six weeks.
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Trooper Dennis Elliott . Royal Tank Regiment 1st Battalion from Aldershot Wartime Memories of Dennis William Elliott
1939 – The War began on September 34th, which was at the end of the school summer holidays, but as my school had no Air Raid Shelters our school holidays were extended until they were built. After 4 weeks we returned to school for 1 hour each day to collect homework and to return the previous days lessons. It was getting close to Christmas before the Air Raid Shelters were all built and we were able to go back to school all day. During these first months of the war we had to get used to the black out, all houses, shops, offices and factories had to make sure that no lights could be seen after dark and there were no street lights, so on a foggy night it was very difficult to find your way around.
1940 – I left school during this year and started work at the Accounts Offices of the N.A.A.F.I. Although the Air Raid Sirens went quite often, only one raid was made on the barracks up the road one Saturday afternoon where Canadian soldiers were stationed. There was also a raid on a train at Tongham which was hit with ammunition on board. Quite a firework display at night.
1941 - With my friends I joined the Air Training Corp, with an idea of eventually to the R.A.F., during the next 2 years I got 3 flights in wartime aircraft.
1942 – All offices and factories had to protect their property from fire during Air Raids so the staff had to do what was called Fire Watching, all men over the age of 18 had to take their turn but when you were 16 years you could volunteer, for this you were paid 2/6 (12.5 p) which meant I could go to the cinema twice that week.
1943 – The services accepted volunteers from the age of 17.5 and you could choose which one to join but at 18 you were conscripted and you had no choice of service you joined. So with my friends we decided that driving a tank would be far better than anything else so we volunteered for the Royal Armoured Corps. A few weeks later we received our call up papers and travelled to Bovington Camp to start our training.
1944 – Soldiers at this time had to wait until they were 18.5 before being sent abroad so I was too young to take part in D-Day. It wasn’t until near the end of the year before I went to Ostend in Belgium and then onto Brussels.
1945 – In Belgium I joined the 1st Royal Tank Regiment and went onto Holland, after a few weeks on patrol we returned to Belgium and then back to Holland again to a village near Eindhoven, a few days later we crossed the Rhine. At the end of March I was in the lead tank advancing to Osnabruck when the tank was hit twice. Fortunately I was halfway out of the tank when the second shell hit so was blown out by the blast. At this point I was taken prisoner and sent to Stalag 10B, which was at a place called San Bostel, this is a few miles east of the German Naval Base at Bremerhaven in the far North of Germany. I was liberated by the Grenadiers Guards and flown to Brussels and from there in a Lancaster Bomber to R.A.F. Wing in Buckinghamshire; V.E. Day came the day after I got home.
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Tpr. Dennis Wiliam Elliott . British Army 1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment from Aldershot My Dad Dennis Elliott was eighteen when he was enlisted in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment.
On 31 December 1944 he was blown out of his tank in Belgium with Cpl Frayne and Trooper N Fleetwood. He was taken prisoner and incarcerated in Stalag 10B from where he was liberated on 29 April 1945.
Can anyone give me any information about him as he died very suddenly in 2011, and did not talk about his time in the war. I have found the above information from his service records.
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Pte. Dennis William Elliott . British Army 1st Btn. Royal Tank Regiment from Aldershot, Hampshire This photo of 413 Squadron A.T.C. was taken at the football ground in Aldershot, Hampshire in 1942. My dad is in the second row third person in. His cousin Jack Elliott is in the bottom row and was a lot older than my dad. Both, sadly, aren't alive any more.
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Pte. Dennis William Elliott . British Army 1st Btn. Royal Tank Regiment Dennis Elliott was born in 1926 in Aldershot.
He was the son of Ethelbert Samuel Gerald Elliott and Frances Amy Elliott nee Clarke. He had a sister Brenda Mary Vickery nee Elliott.
He served in the 1st Royal Tank Regiment during WW2 and went missing in action on 30th of March 1945.
He was taken to Sandbostel Prisoner of War Camp.
After the war he stayed in the Army and worked in Vienna, Austria at the Schrombruen Palace.
He met his future wife Doreen Stephenson who came from York but was working in Aldershot at the Army Records Office.
They married in 1951 in York.
He died very suddenly from a short illness in 2011 at the age of 84.
My Dad lived most of his live in and around the Aldershot area of Hampshire.
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DG Elliott . British Army Royal Tank Regiment DG Elliott served with the Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Ernest Elliott . Auxiliary Fire Service My Grandfather, Ernest Elliott lived in Chatham Kent and I believe he served in Kent. His brother Charles Edwin Elliott also served in the same unit. Does anyone remember either of them? Records for these Services are very difficult to find. Any further ideas? Where can one find photographic evidence? I am tracing my family tree and would like to learn more about the National Fire Service and the Auxiliary Fire Service in WW2. Are there any books dedicated to their heroic efforts?
I discovered this site by chance and am very impressed and much in awe of the tales to be read. Thank you for any assistance that you may be able to pass on. Keep up the good work.
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Pte. Frederick Charles Elliott . British Army 20th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps from 4 Dagmar Terrace, Islington, London (d.27th Jul 1917) Frederick Charles Elliott was born in Richmond, Surrey in 1873. He practised boxing and was listed in two fights in London; one being at Smithfield, London. Probably in a local public House, so I assume from this that he was a strong and fit man. I sit and write this on Armistice day Sunday 11 November 2012. Fred married my grandmother on 11.11.1911. Their daughter my mother passed away on 11.11.2001 so today is a very personal day for me. Fred was killed in France on 27th April 1917. He was part of the Kings Royal Rifle Regiment, but as regiments became decimated he became part of the Royal Green Jackets. The war record diary is fully complete until that fateful day when it is a complete blank then continuing on the 28th April 1917. I finally found his resting place in Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines. France. His group were repairing roads & bridges often under heavy artillery fire. I wonder how many of his fellow soldiers were killed on that day at that particular site? I sadly have no photo of him nor can I find anything on the military sites and I have been advised that some of the records were lost in WW2.
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Pte. Frederick Elliott . British Army 1st/4th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (d.28th Jan 1945)
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Able Seaman George Douglas "Spunyarn" Elliott . Royal Navy HMS Sirius from Port Elizabeth, South Africa I joined HMS Sirius in Simonstown in September 1942, together with 32 other South Africans, and served aboard her until April 1943 when I, together with four other South Africans, took passage to Liverpool prior to attending the selection board at the Officers Training Base at Hove. After commissioning I spent the rest of my service with Coastal Forces in West Africa and the Far East ending up in command of 72 ft harbour defence motor launches.
When looking at the photographs of the Sirius I spotted those showing the port of Bone being bombed by aircraft and as I took them, and hold the negatives, it would be interesting to know who submitted them so that I can get in touch and have a chat as it was probably one of my mess mates.
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GT Elliott . British Army GT Elliott served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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GV Elliott . British Army Royal Armoured Corps GV Elliott served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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H Elliott . British Army Royal Artillery H Elliott served with the Royal Artillery British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Harold Elliott . Auxiliary Fire Service Harold Elliott joined the Auxiliary Fire Service and helped put out the fires in Plymouth in WW2.
He was stationed in Bridge North.
He couldn't enlist in the armed forces because of a perforated ear drum and wanted to help out in any way he could and this was the only way of doing so.
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JD Elliott . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JD Elliott served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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JD Elliott . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JD Elliott served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Prtr2/C. Jesse E. Elliott . United States Navy from West Virginia Jesse E Elliott was held in POW Camp Fukuoka 17 Japan.
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JF Elliott . British Army Royal Armoured Corps JF Elliott served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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JH Elliott . British Army JH Elliott served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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2Lt. Keith Elliott VC.. New Zealand Military Forces 22nd Battalion from New Zealand
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KH Elliott . British Army KH Elliott served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Pte. Lawrence Elliott . British Army Royal Warwickshire Regiment
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Pte. Leslie Frederick Elliott . British Army Royal West Kent Regiment
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2nd eng.off. Lewis Elliott . Canadian Merchant Navy from Flint, Michigan, U.S.A (d.25th May 1941) Second Engineer Officer Elliott was the Son of Thomas and Alberta Elliott; husband of Winnifred Elliott, of Flint, Michigan, U.S.A.
He was 40 when he died and has a special memorial in the Kindia Cemetery in New Guinea.
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F/O. Maurice Alec Stanley Elliott . Royal Air Force 76 Squadron from 74 Gloucester Court, Kew, Richmond, Surrey (d.8th April 1943) Maurice Elliott was born on the 20th November, 1922. He entered King's as a member of Meynell House in May 1936, was appointed a House Prefect in 1939, and left school in July, 1940. He tried to join the Royal Air Force before he was old enough to be accepted, his real age was discovered and he had to wait until November 1940. He passed all his Air Force examinations with high honours and was sent for further training to Canada, where he and one other were the only two chosen for commissions from their group. In 1942, he returned to England and was, eventually posted to No. 76 Bomber Squadron, with the rank of Pilot Officer. On the night of 8th/9th of April 1943, he took off for Duisberg and never returned.
At King's, Elliott was conspicuous as a games player, for he was a member of the First teams in Rugby Football, Hockey and Tennis, and was also Junior Victor Ludorum and an excellent shot. His Wing Commander wrote of him as " a remarkably fine Captain of Aircraft. with an extremely high sense of duty and courage. He had a very responsible and arduous job, and the way in which he fulfilled it won him the complete confidence of his crew, as well as of myself."
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Flt.Sgt. Newman Walter "Bill" Elliott . Royal Air Force 61 Squadron My Father Newman "Bill" Elliott was a Rear Gunner, he trained at No.5 Lancaster Finishing School at Syerston, Nottinghamshire from
July 29th to August 8th 1944. He then joined No. 61 Squadron at Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire. His missions were all flown with F/O Cooksey. On August 10th - 29th 1944 his Logbook shows Lancasters flown in:
MF 912, BJ183, EE17, PD266, ED8s60, PB434 R
, Between September 10th - 27th 1944. PB434 R, Non specific 729 V, H, G, D.
From October 1st to November 29th 1944. All operations LL843 R.
From December 1st to 17th 1944. LL843 R, Non specific L.
From January 12th - 27th 1945. All LL843 R
From February 1st to 21st 1945. LL843 R, Non specific Q.
March 1st to 11th 1945. LL843 R, Non specific O & Y.
His tour expired 11th March 1945 when he had flown Thirty Six ops. I am researching further.
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Flt.Sgt. Osric Brownrigg Elliott . Royal Australian Air Force 463 Sqdn. (d.1945-03-03) Flt Sgt Elliott's Lancaster was shot down on 3/4th March 1945 whilst on a mission over the Dortmund Ems Canal. Two of the crew survived: Sgt J M H Millar, RAF and Flt.Sgt Eugene Foreman, RAAF. If anyone has information about these men, other air crew or ground crew, please contact me.
Other members of the crew were Sgt Charles Billard, RAF (my relative); F/Lt Francis Howells, RAAF; F/Sgt Douglas Bates, RAF; Flt Sgt Philip T Barlow, RAF. They flew from RAF Waddington, 463 Squadron.
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R Elliott . British Army Durham Light Infantry R Elliott served with the Durham Light Infantry British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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CQMS R. Elliott . British Army 255 Car Coy. Royal Army Service Corps from (d. ) I have recently purchased some old books and maps. I have found a German Phrase book issued to 3127590 CQMS Elliott R , 255 Car Company RASC,Stationed at Hoechst , Nr Frankfurt , Germany 26th August 1945.
I wonder if he is still alive or perhaps his relations might be interested in this book. I would willingly send it to them.
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