Captain Arthur Godfrey ELLIOTT, MC

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Everyone,
Am very interested to know whether there might be a citation somewhere for the MC awarded to a Captain Arthur Godfrey ELLIOTT in World War One.  Have been trying to decipher his record on Ancestry, but cannot get beyond most of the hieroglyphics apart from the fact he was in the Grenadier Guards, and there very definitely is the MC mentioned after his name.
Any help will be much appreciated!
Very best wishes, Keith

[km1971]

Hi Keith

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31119/supplement/616

Can you post the link to the Ancestry record?

Ken

[Keith Sherwood]

A bit embarrassing this, but I'm beginning to think that (MC) might have meant Medical Corps…oh dear! I'll try and provide the link now…
Keith
Well, maybe I was right all along, as that citation looks pretty good to me, and I do know that he was badly gassed - something that affected his health for the rest of his life and possibly prematurely ended his life in 1952...

[Desidog]

Hi there,
I stumbled across this thread whilst researching the son of Arthur Godfery Elliott, whose name is Richard Elliott who was my step Grandfather (whom I never met). I was wondering if you have any connection to Arthur Godfrey Elliott and therefore Richard Elliott.  Richard was born 1923 in Bishops Stortford.
If you have any information you are willing to share it would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks
Jon

[MaxD]

Keith.  The initials MC on their own would not be used to denote the regiment - it is always RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps). 

You are no doubt looking at the medal card for the Grenadier Guards Lieut then Capt which is clear that it is the Military Cross so the citation Ken points to is the same man.

His medal card also says he is eligible for a Silver War Badge but I can't find him on the roll.

His service record is at the National Archives http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1120080

maxD

[GrahamSimons]

Might be worth contacting the Regtl HQ of the Grenadiers - see the link.
http://www.theguardsmuseum.com/Family-Research

He shows up in Alumni Cantabrigienses - who knows, his College or his old school may have more details? Worth asking their archivists? http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/contact-us-main/  and https://www.mtsn.org.uk/contact-us/
Adm. pens. (age 19) at MAGDALENE, Aug. 24, 1898. S. of Robert John, clerk, of St Margaret's, Mead Vale, Redhill, Surrey, late of St Stephen's, Poplar, London. [B. Aug. 29, 1879.] School, Merchant Taylors' (Exhibitioner). Matric. Michs. 1898; B.A. 1901. Secretary of the London Hospital. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (28th London Regt.; Capt., Grenadier Guards; wounded; M.C.). Address, 86, Palace Gardens Terrace, London, W., in 1923. (Merchant Taylors' Sch. Reg.)

And Birthday Honours 1930, OBE.

[Desidog]

Hi there,
Anyone who has responded with information on Cpt Arthur Godfrey Elliott, are you researching just his military history, or his family history as well? If you are doing his family history, would you have any information or relationship to his son, who was Richard Arthur Elliott, born 8.2.23 Bishops Storford, died 1986 Birmingham. He was married several times, having a number of children. Richard was my step grandfather, who married my nan in Birmingham in 1975.
Many thanks.
Jon

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Jon,
I started this thread two and a half years ago simply to discover more about Capt. Arthur Godfrey Elliott's military record/history, but many thanks for letting me know where you fit into the ELLIOTT family jigsaw!
Regards, Keith