View source for Elliott Albert Harcourt Sapper 14418991

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|Surname and forenames=Elliott Albert Harcourt
|Army number=14418991.
|Rank=Sapper
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=8/11/1925 at Farncombe, Surrey.  Mother's maiden surname Sole.
|Age=(At time of death) 18.
|Unit=Enlisted in the General Staff Corps.  Underwent Basic Training at a Primary Training Centre.  Transferred to the Royal Engineers.  Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers.   Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 24/10/1944.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 24/10/1944.  Initially interred in WUUSTWEZEL (Gooreind) Churchyard.  Re-buried on 12/3/1958 in Adegem Canadiam War Cemetery in Grave reference XII. G. 6.  Headstone inscription reads "UNSEEN, HE STANDS BY OUR SIDE AND WHISPERS: DON'T GRIEVE DEATH CANNOT DIVIDE".
|Home address=Son of Wilfred Cecil (1901 - 1981) and Beatrice May (1899 - 1959) Elliott (nee Sole) of Farncombe, Surrey. 
}}

Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries.  There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.