Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mrs Caroline A. Elgood. On the 31st January 1920 the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester published a Roll of Honour of former pupils, this records that Guy attended the school between the years 1898 and 1904. His enlistment documents record that he gave his next of kin as his mother, Mrs Caroline Elgood of Silver Creek Ranch, Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada and his trade or calling as Locomotive Fireman. Information taken from his medical examination shows that he was 5 foot and 11 ½ inches in height with a chest measurement of 31 ½ to 35 inches. His complexion was described as medium with blue eyes and black hair. He gave his religion as Agnostic. He died of influenza.