Born: 9 October 1886
Died: 5 March 1917
Buried: Undercliffe Cemetery
Address: 76 Fagley Road, Undercliffe
Parents: Thomas & Emma
Spouse: Annie Elizabeth, nee Scott
Siblings: Five
Occupation: Wool sorter
Organisations/clubs:
Military
Rank: Pte
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour:
Children:
Regiment: West Yorkshire
Elliott Adair Currie
Elliott Addair Currie was born on
the 9th of October 1886 and
baptised at St Mary, Laisterdyke on
the 24th November 1886 the son of
Scotsman Thomas Adair Currie
and his Bradford born wife, Emma.
Thomas and Emma were living in
Wellington Terrace, Eccleshill
when their first child Annie
Grayson Currie was born in 1881,
followed by Edith Jane born 1883,
Elliot Adair born 1886 and
Margareta born in 1888.
By 1891 the family were living in
Battye Street where two more
children were born, Doris Mary
born and Samuel Charles.
In 1901 the family were
living in Leeds Road,
Eccleshil. At 15 years
of age Elliott is working
as a wool sorter.
By 1911 the family had
again moved house and
were now living at 87
Sydenham Place and
Elliott is still working as
a wool sorter.
In 1914 Elliott married
Annie Elizabeth Scott who was
born in Bradford in 1888 and they
began their married life at 76
Fagley Road.
Elliott enlisted in February 1916 as
Rifleman 4839 in the
1/6th Battalion of the
Prince of Wales Own
West Yorkshire
Regiment and saw
service on the Western
Front. On 22
September 1916 the
Shipley Times &
Express reported that he
had been wounded in
the head and back and
was in a base hospital in
France.
At some point he was transported
home where he died from wounds
on the 5th March 1917 and was
buried in Undercliffe Cemetery.
His effects were left to his wife
Annie who received £4.1.8d on the
16th June 1917 and a War Gratuity
of £6.10s on the 24th October
1919.
Annie re-married in 1921 to Frank
Smith and went to live in
Thornbury and it may be for this
reason that Elliott did not appear on
St Luke’s Church Memorial even
though his name appears in the
Church magazine.
Researched and written by Jean
Britteon, to whom many thanks
