Elliot, William

William was born in Warwick on 18th November 1888. He was baptised at St Nicholas Church on 19th December 1888. William was the second youngest of nine children. He had three older half brothers, James (born 1870), Charles (born 1872) and Henry (born 1874) although he died as a baby and his mother Emily died too in 1874 aged 30. William’s father, also William, married Sarah Ann Cleverley in 1875 and they had six children, Kate born 1878, George 1879, Emily 1883, Frederick 1885 and Ellen 1891.

According to the 1911 census the family were living at 19 Union Road, Packmores. William’s father was a print compositor. He died in 1920 aged 75 and his mother died in 1921 aged 68. In 1911 William aged 21 was a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was based at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Hound near Southampton.

William’s wife, Helen, was born in Edinburgh in about 1893. He was appointed as a second class Sanitary Inspector in Hong Kong in 1923 and promoted to first class in 1929. In 1935 William was granted 279 days leave and he and his wife travelled extensively from Hong Kong via Manila to Canada and the USA. William was promoted to Inspector of Labour in 1938. He had been in the post temporarily for two years after the previous inspector had died.