Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Augustus Elliott of Brailes, Banbury, Oxfordshire, Grocer and Draper, and his wife Annie who was the daughter of Thomas Elliott of Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Walter was educated at the Boys’ Endowed School at Brailes, Banbury, Oxfordshire, on leaving he was employed with Messrs. Thindler and Douglas of Market Harborough for three years, and subsequently entered employment with Messrs. Cook, Son and Company, Drapers, St. Paul’s Churchyard, London as a Warehouseman. He enlisted in Queen Victoria’s Rifles in August 1914, after the outbreak of war. He went to Exeter College, Oxford in March 1916 to join the O.T.C. and obtained a commission in the Royal Fusiliers in September of the same year. He served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from November 1916 and was killed in action at Beaucourt on the 13th of November 1916. He was buried in Knightsbride Cemetery, Mesnil, France. His Colonel wrote, “On the morning of the 13th instant the Battalion was one of many in an attack on the German position. Unfortunately just in front of us was an enemy’s strong point with many machine guns, which opened fire on our attacking troops. It was against this your son was leading his platoon when he met his death. His loss is much felt by both officers and men. I had him buried with his Company Commander and other officers in a cemetery near where he fell.” Walter was unmarried.