LEST WE FORGET 143 ELLIOTT, James “Grant” WWII Grant Elliott was the son of Charles and Myrtle (Phipps) Elliott of Forgan, Saskatchewan. He served during World War II on Corvette HMCS Alberni. He remained overseas with the RCN after the war. Attached to British Submarine service from 1957, he was stationed first at Gosport Naval Base in England then at HMS Terror in Singapore. He retired to Victoria, British Columbia in 1964. Grant passed away in Victoria in 1969, at the age of fifty. ELLIOTT, Walter J. Walter arrived in Elrose, Saskatchewan in 1937 and worked as an agent for The Monarch Lumber Co. Ltd. He married Lorane Gesy that same year and they made their home in Elrose for about twenty years. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force for about six months and then transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy. After serving for two years, Walter returned to Elrose as the Town Clerk and held this position when the town was incorporated in February 1951. In 1959, they moved to Tisdale, Saskatchewan here he was secretarytreasurer of the School Division. In 1979, the family moved to Langley, British Columbia. Lorane passed away on June 29, 2004. ELLIOTT, Percy WWI Percy Elliott homesteaded in the Hughton area and lived with his brother Charles. He enlisted in the Canadian Army during World War I. He escaped injury and returned at the end of the war to his homestead. He remained in the Hughton District a few years, then returned to his home in the East. He married Ina Parker and lived in Toronto where he passed away some years later.
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