PFC Harvey Benjamin Elliott

courtesy of Homer Swain

PFC Harvey Benjamin Elliott was born 20 Oct 1924 in Rolla, Missouri. He was the 2nd of 9 children and oldest son of Benjamin Wilbert and Viola Mae (Harsh) Elliott. 

Harvey was drafted in August 1943 and trained first at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and then Camp Wolters, Texas near Mineral Wells. He went home on furlough in early March 1944 and then was sent to the European theater. He was first in Northern Ireland and then England where he was sent to a replacement depot. From there he was transferred to M Company 116th Infantry on 19 Jun 1944. He wrote home telling of the heavy German artillery fire. PVT Elliott was wounded on 21 Jun 1944 and, despite evacuation to a field hospital, died of his wound(s) the same day. 

PVT Elliott was repatriated in 1948 and was re-interred in the Oak Ridge Cemetery in Kennett, Missouri. 

Brother, Paul Eugene Elliott, served as a SGT in the U.S. Army in the Korean war.