Photo: Brian Chandler
In Newbrough (St. Peter) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In
loving memory of
Mary Amy
beloved wife of
Henry Elliot
who died at Limestone Cottage
Frankham, 25th Dec. 1916
aged 60 years
also Gladstone
their youngest son
who died of wounds in France
24th Nov. 1917
aged 19⅟2 years
interred in Dozenghem British
Cemetery
also the above
Henry Elliot
died 15th Jan. 1940
aged 89 years
Gladstone was the son of Henry Elliot and the late Mary Amy Elliot of Frankham, Fourstones.
Aged nineteen, he was wounded at Passchendaele on 23 November 1917 and died two days later from his wounds.
He attended Newbrough Boys School, leaving in 1912.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson
Gladstone Elliott is remembered at Newbrough on N12.01, N12.04, N12.05, N12.06, N12.07 and N12.08
