Notes
His biography on the college website (see references) states: ‘Dick was the youngest child of Lt. Col John Ford Elkington D.S.O. and his wife Mary Rew.of Adbury Holt near Burghclere Berkshire where he was born. He was educated at Eton and matriculated in 1936. He read Chemistry and was awarded his degree in 1941.
He joined the 10th [2nd Bn The Tower Hamlets Rifles] Battalion of the Rifle Brigade and died of wounds received near Bou Arada, Tunisia on January 19th 1943. He is buried in Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery Plot 11. H. 5. He is also commemorated on a wall plaque and a window in Burghclere church. In May 1946, Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery of Alamein unveiled this plaque, together with a stained glass window in his memory and another plaque in memory of his brother in law, Sir Richard Des Voeux who was killed at Arnhem in 1944 when commanding 156 Battalion of the Parachute Regiment.