• Born 9 February 1893, eldest son of Charles Lister Boileau Elliott (1864-1940) and Katherine Peel O'Brien
• Lived in London.
• Served with 4th Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment, Gallipoli 1915 & Egypt 1916, then as a Second Lieutenant in 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry.
• Died of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras , on 12 April 1917, aged 24. Buried at Duisans British Cemetery near Arras.

Charles (left) with his sister Katherine Frances Boileau Elliott (b.1896) and their father Charles Lister Boileau Elliott (1864-1940). Photo courtesy of Charles Baron.




Charles Arthur Boileau Elliott. Photos courtesy of Charles Baron.



Charles in uniform with his sister Katherine Frances Boileau Elliott (b.1896). Photo courtesy of Charles Baron.

Pocket Watch

A pocket watch exists with the following engraving:

C.A.B.ELLIOTT
FROM HIS DEAR
GREAT GRANDFATHER
April 1901
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Only two of his great grandfathers have been identified: Rev. Charles Boileau Elliott (1803-1875) who died to early, and John Samuel Lister, father of Hannah Frances Lister (b.1843). Who gave Charles the watch?

Gravestone

At the Duisans British Cemetery near Arras. This image of it courtesy of Charles Baron:

The stone carries the crest of the Somerset Light Infantry 13th Regiment of Foot (which was garrisoned at the "Jellalabad Barracks" in Taunton). The inscription reads:

"SECOND LIEUTENANT C. A. B. ELLIOTT, SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY, 12TH APRIL 1917, AGE 24.
TRANSLATED FROM THE WARFARE OF THE WORLD INTO THE PEACE OF GOD."

Memorial

In St. Mary's Church, Tattingstone (where his great grandfather had been vicar), there is a memorial to Charles, reading:
"He died the Noblest death a man may die,
Fighting for God & Right & Liberty
And such a death is Immortality." [From 'To You Who Have Lost' by John Oxenham]
IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF CHARLES ARTHUR BOILEAU ELLIOTT, 2nd LIEUT. 1st SOMERSET L.I. DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE APRIL 12, 1917, AGED 24. THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE.
"Death cannot long divide
For is it not as if the rose had climbed
My garden wall & blossomed on the other side" [From 'An April Rhyme' by Alice Carey]