ELLIOTT, George Thomas
| Service Number: | 1791 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 January 1896 |
| Home Town: | Mooroolbark, Maroondah, Victoria |
| Schooling: | St Josephs, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 18 April 1918, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Plot II, Row E, Grave No. 8. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1791, 22nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 1791, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 1791, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne | |
| 27 Aug 1915: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 21st Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Thomas was the son of William Henry and Mrs Catherine Agnes Elliott, but he gave his next of kin as his sister Mrs Catherine O’Donnell of Clifton Hill Victoria.
His brother 2257 Private William Henry Elliott 14th Battalion was killed in action 8 August 1915, aged 26.
Thomas was born Port Melbourne, and educated St Joseph’s, Port Melbourne. He enlisted as a 19-year-old farm hand. He was wounded at Gallipoli, with the 21st Battalion. He was shot through the elbow during November 1915 and his arm was paralysed. He was sent back to Australia in early January 1916. He reenlisted and was back in France with the 21st Battalion before the end of 1916. Elliott was found guilty in October 1917, after being Absent Without Leave for nearly ten days, of serious charges, and sentenced to eight years penal servitude. The bulk of the sentence was remitted during February 1918 and Elliott was returned to his unit some eight weeks before he was fatally wounded.
Notes in NAA archives reveal his mother as c/o the Good Shepherd Convent in Abbotsford and that her husband had deserted her in 1903 and she had no knowledge of his whereabouts or whether he was still alive.