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Private Elliott had taken a business course at Stanstead College and also studied telegraphy so that he could relieve his father as the railway agent at the Clifton Station.
In 1915 he went into business as a general merchant in Clifton. In March of 1916 he enlisted in the 117th Battalion and went overseas as a bandsman. In England, he trained as a stretcher bearer and later went into the infantry.
He was present at the taking of Vimy Ridge, in the battle of Messines and Passchendaele and numerous others. He was gassed in 1917 and lost his voice for several months. In March 1918, he was buried by earth from a shell but escaped without a scratch.
He took special training in sharp shooting and was taken into the Intelligence section of the Battalion. He won prizes as best shot out of a group of 200 men. He was put up as a guntester and remained at this until the big drive August 8th when he lost his life by a machine gun bullet through his side. He was 22 years old when he died.
He had been a fine upstanding man in the community before his military experiences where he earned a Distinguished Conduct Medal. Passage taken from 'The War Years in Clifton' - A Commemorative Book
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Private Clarence Arnold Elliott
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Page 403 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME Somme, France
Crouy is a village about 16 kilometres north-west of Amiens on the west side of the River Somme, on the Amiens-Abbeville main road. The CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY is a little south of the village on the west side of the road to Cavillon and there is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission signpost on the main road.
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