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Elliker, William Harold, Acting Captain, Royal Engineers Died 19th February 1919

CWGC: Special Brigade, Royal Engineers Aged 29 Son of the Rev. W. Elliker and Mrs. A. E. Elliker; husband of Constance Norah Elliker, of Cornard Parva Rectory, Sudbury, Suffolk Uttoxeter Cemetery, Staffordshire, Old, I, 765

Ashbourne News, 28th February 1919

William Harold Elliker died of pneumonia following influenza at the Royal Military Hospital, Devonport. He was the elder son of the Rev. Walter Elliker, vicar of Sutton on the Hill, Derbyshire, and late of Uttoxeter, and was married in 1917 to the youngest daughter of the Rev. W. H. Symonds, vicar of St. Paul's Church, Derby. At the time of his death, he had an eighteen month old child. He enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers (Public Schools) Battalion in September 1914, was commissioned and served with the battalion in France for two years. He was then transferred to the Special Brigade of the Royal Engineers, and sometime during 1917 he was evacuated back to England suffering from trench fever and shell shock. He had been on home service ever since, in command of a company of the Special Brigade, Royal Engineers, based at Devonport.

More information about Captain Elliker can also be found on the very informative Uttoxeter Lost Generation website: http://uttoxeterlostgeneration.co.uk/ellikerp1.htm