Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 59 ELLIOT, Albert WWII Albert volunteered to join the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment and, after a few weeks of basic training, went overseas to France with the British Expeditionary Forces (B.E.F.) in November 1939. His family received a telegram from the War Office in London, which was very brief and to the point, “Your son, Private Albert William Elliot, is missing in action and believed killed.” Albert had actually been taken prisoner at Dunkirk, France in May of 1940. After the war, Albert spent seventeen long years in the Veterans Hospital, Ste-Anne-de Bellevue, PQ. Submitted independently. ELLIOT, John WWII John volunteered for the Royal Navy early in the war for “Hostilities Only” (H.O.) and his training at HMS Chatham, in the south of England. He then served time in a converted fishing trawler to minesweeper - HMS Richard Crofts ships duties included minesweeping in the English Channel and beyond. He retired from the Royal Canadian Navy as Chief Petty Officer at Shelburn, NS. Submitted independently. ELLIOT, Roy WWII Roy was born in Middleton, NS, in 1917. He enlisted in the Canadian Army, West Nova Scotia Regiment as a reservist in 1938. He was commissioned in 1939 and served from 1940 to 1945 in the UK, Sicily, Italy and Northwest Europe. He is now deceased. Roy was a Past President of the Middleton Branch. Submitted by Middleton Branch 001 of The Royal Canadian Legion. ELLIOT, Jean WWII Jean volunteers for the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (W.A.A.F.) in November 1939 and served until August 1945, being released as a Leading Aircraftwoman (L.A.C.W.). Jean’s duties as a cook took her to the fighter air-bases in Abington, Surrey and Croydon, Kent. Jean passed away on Thanksgiving Day in 1987 at the age of 65 years. Submitted independently. ELLIOT, Robert “Bob” WWII Bob volunteered for wartime duty in the Royal Navy in 1941. After basic training, he applied for and, after the necessary courses, became a Sick-Berth attendant (S.B.A.). In 1942, he sailed to the United States onboard the RMS Queen Mary. He served in the Bentley for almost four years, including the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, and other sea battles prior to D-Day. Bob passed away on January 6, 2002 and was buried in Last Post Cemetery in Montreal, PQ. Submitted independently.
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