ELLIOT, Matthew
| Service Number: | 6941 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Delny, Ross-shire, Scotland., date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Frankston, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 27 February 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France, Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, Lille, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Frankston Avenue of Honour Memorial, Frankston Great War Roll of Honour, Hastings War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement Gunner, 6941, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked Gunner, 6941, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 29. His brother, Private Michael Elliot,aged 29, Service Number 4412, also fell –he died of illness at Harefield, Middlesex, England. He served with the 24th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Both were born Delny, Ross-shire, Scotland. Delny (Scottish Gaelic: Deilgnidh) is a small hamlet in the parish of Kilmuir-Easter in Ross-shire, Scotland
They were sons of John and Margaret Jane Elliot.
The brothers are remembered on the Kilmuir Easter War Memorial. Kilmuir Easter is a parish in the county of Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, 4 miles South of Tain. It is bounded by the Cromarty Firth, of which it commands a view. It contains the hamlets of Nigg, Kincardine, Ederton, Logie Easter, and Rosskeen.
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