SOLDIER DETAILS:
Elliot,
James Harvey
Private, 9th Machine Gun Coy #663366
October 30, 1917
Menin
Gate Memorial
Originally with the 164th Battalion
Maple
Leaf Legacy Project |
Haltonville Cenotaph
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CWGC Menin Gate Memorial
Menin Gate Inscription
Thanks to Sabine
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Private
Elliot has no known grave. His name is inscribed
on Panel 32 of the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium
and on the Haltonville Cenotaph.
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SOLDIER SUMMARY:
| Private James Harvey Elliot originally attested
to the 164th Canadian Infantry Battalion on February 12, 1916,
along with many other lads from the Milton area. He was
the son of William and Christina Elliot of Campbellville (now
Milton), Ontario. The 164th was broken up to supply reinforcements to the units
in the field and so Private Elliot went to the 2nd Canadian
Reserve Battalion on April 23, 1917 and then to the 9th Machine
Gun Company (3rd Division, 9th Brigade) on October 27, 1917. His time
with the unit was short, as he was killed in action 3 days later
on October 30, 1917.
The Nicholson Official History (page
319 - Chapter 10) reports that the
9th Coy CMG was in support of the attach on Passchendaele, in
particular at the Bellevue spur at the Ravebeek swamp. The war diary reports
that the 9th MG Coy was heavily shelled on October 30th with 1
officer and 8 others killed. A report on the 9th MG Coy
operation is available in the War
Diary Appendices. Passchendaele was finally captured on November 6, 1917.
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The soldier pages contain information
that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks
are active where the information is available:
The summary of the service is taken from
the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and
Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is
available in electronic and paper format in the Alex
Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society.
Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the
events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared.
The research information available is as noted on the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix
Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line
War Diaries.
A summary of all the soldiers is
contained on the Web Blog "Great
War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also
be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton
Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by
John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb. |
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