posted on 2024-01-17, 13:35authored byLest We Forget Project Team
Served with the Devon F Royal Engineers and served in Palestine and Jerusalem. He was in Jerusalem when the armistice was signed and the inscription inside the Jerusalem Bible was written at the same too and dedicated to his daughter, Winifred (Colin's mother). Colin was a fire watcher in the second world war and worked for the council for the remainder of his life; helping to rebuild Plymouth in the 1950s.
History
Name of contributor(s)
Colin May
Subject of the story/individual the object(s) relate to
William Mead Elliott - contributor's grandfather
Date(s) the event(s) in the story took place
1914-1918
Location(s) where the event(s) in the story took place
Palestine, Jerusalem, Plymouth
Object(s)
Photographs, medals, Jerusalem Bible, books written by Colin and his mother with photos in them