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|Surname and forenames=Elliott Percival
|Army number=4273336
|Rank=Fusilier
|Decorations=None known.
|Date of birth=Birth registered in Morpeth, Northumberland 1919.  Mother's maiden surname Rutherford.
|Age=23
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Posted to the 9th Battalion.  Served B.E.F.?  Served Malaya.  DIED 28/8/1943 (CWGC indicates 23rd August) at Tarsoa, Siam, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese.
|Company/Battery=W Company.
|Task or role=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - captured 15/2/1942 at Singapore when the force was surrendered.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED of Malnutrition and Malaria 23/8/1943 (Regimental records show 28th August).  Buried initially in Grave 150/2 at Tarsoa No. 2 Cemetery.  Re-interred 1/3/1946 in Grave 4.B.26. Kanchanaburi War Cemetery.  No family details on CWGC commemorative record, or inscription on his headstone.  Probate granted 7/12/1945 at Newcastle upon Tyne to Sarah Isabella Elliott, wife of James Henry Elliott.
|Home address=Percival's father lived at 14 Chevington Crescent, Red Row, Morpeth.  
}}