Notes
His biography on the college website (see references) states: ‘David was born in the Wandsworth area of London to Ian Frederick Lettsom Elliott and his wife, Florence Elizabeth Vere Fison. He had an older sister and a twin brother who died shortly after their birth. His father was the representative of US Steel in Europe who in the years immediately before World War II, had participated in the management of the International Steel Cartel and, later, was a representative of the United States on the international control authority for the German Ruhr. David’s mother died on March 1st 1927. She was a sister of James Frederick Lorimer Fison, graduate of Christ Church who died of wounds in 1917.
David was educated at Rugby where he was a Scholar and Matriculated in 1937. He was a good cricketer and played for Suffolk in the 1938 season. With his sister, Diana, he spent much time at Stutton Hall, Suffolk, the home of their Fison grandparents. He joined the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards at Midsomer Norton on October 5th 1941 from a training battalion. He was killed in the battle for Monte Cassino on February 11th 1944. He is buried in the Cassino War Cemetery Plot XIX. H. 11.