BORN HULL 24/01/1897. SCULCOATES. SON OF JOSEPH WILLIAM ELTON & HANNAH MARIA YOUNG, OF 1 NORMANS TERRACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL AND 6 GRANVILLE TERRACE, BEAN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE COLDSTREAM GUARDS. KILLED IN ACTION 14/09/1914, AGED 17. BURIED AT LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL, MARNE, FRANCE.
HE IS ALSO RECORDED ON THE BEAN STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 11 October 1916).
HE LEFT FIVE BROTHERS. HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON THE BEAN STREET ROLL OF HONOUR, HULL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL & LINCOLNSHIRE TIMES, ON 3RD OCTOBER 1914, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS NAME WAS ALSO RECORDED ON THE WAR MEMORIAL AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID DURING WW2. CENSUS PHOTO.
