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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.