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Robert Elliott

Service Number 867
Military Unit Royal Field Artillery BEF
Date of birth Unknown
Date of Death 28 Feb 1915 (23 Years Old)
Place of Birth West Hallam Derbyshire
Employment, Education or Hobbies Robert attended Scargill Boys school West Hallam. On leaving school, he worked for Richard Morris as a cowhand at Grange Farm, Cock Orchard, West Hallam.
Family History

He was the son of Robert (a farmer) and Emily Elliott and the brother of Arthur, Annie, John Henry and Walter Elliott. They lived at Nursery Farm West Hallam, Derbyshire. Robert’s father died in spring 1905 and his mother moved to Kimberley. She married Enoch Talbot in the autumn of 1909.

Military History

He served with 4th North Midland Bde and may have been a Territorial. Robert is named on the West Hallam village war memorial located near St. Wilfrid's church gates.

Extra Information

No Medal Card exists for this man so he saw no overseas service. He died in Kimberley 28/2/1915 of TB (death certificate obtained from GRO) and is registered as 'farm labourer' which identifies him as the 'cowman' working on a West Hallam farm in 1911 and the son of a farmer. Robert Elliott has a CWGC headstone in Kimberley Cemetery Grave Reference: C5410.

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