Arthur Buller Lynes Elliott (c1900-1926)
Born at Brixton the son of Frank Elliott, a Commercial Traveller, and his wife Ellen Elizabeth Lynes. Grandson of Isaac Lynes, a Gardener.
1918 RAF records. Service Number: 246847
1926 Mechanic on Alan Cobham's flight to Australia but was shot and killed in Iraq.
1926 July 06th. Died at RAF Hospital, Marcina Basra, Iraq. Of 1 Strathaven House, Brent Street, Hendon. Probate to his widowed mother.
1926 Letters of Administration. 'Mr. Arthur Buller Elliott, of 1, Strathaven House, Brent-street, Hendon who had accompanied Mr. Cobham on his great flights to India and the Cape, as well as his present flight to Australia, and who died during that journey in the R.A.F. hospital at Makina, Basrah, on July 6 last, from gunshot wounds sustained whilst in flight over Mesopotamia'[1]
1916 'Mr Arthur Buller Elliott was 26 years of age. He was christened Buller owing to the fact that he was born during the Boer War. He joined the R.A.F. in 1917, and spent months Mesopotamia. He left the R.A.F. in 1922, and was employed by the Haviland Aircraft Company at the time of his death. He flew with Mr Cobham to Rangoon, and later accompanied him on the great Cape Town flight.'[2]