F/O. Maurice Alec Stanley Elliott
Royal Air Force 76 Squadron
from:74 Gloucester Court, Kew, Richmond, Surrey
(d.8th April 1943)
Maurice Elliott was born on the 20th November, 1922. He entered King's as a member of Meynell House in May 1936, was appointed a House Prefect in 1939, and left school in July, 1940. He tried to join the Royal Air Force before he was old enough to be accepted, his real age was discovered and he had to wait until November 1940. He passed all his Air Force examinations with high honours and was sent for further training to Canada, where he and one other were the only two chosen for commissions from their group. In 1942, he returned to England and was, eventually posted to No. 76 Bomber Squadron, with the rank of Pilot Officer. On the night of 8th/9th of April 1943, he took off for Duisberg and never returned.
At King's, Elliott was conspicuous as a games player, for he was a member of the First teams in Rugby Football, Hockey and Tennis, and was also Junior Victor Ludorum and an excellent shot. His Wing Commander wrote of him as " a remarkably fine Captain of Aircraft. with an extremely high sense of duty and courage. He had a very responsible and arduous job, and the way in which he fulfilled it won him the complete confidence of his crew, as well as of myself."
