Five: Major M.E.Y. Eliot, Tank Corps, Late Imperial Yeomanry, Army Service Corps, Rifle Brigade and Royal Engineers, Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (5885 Pte., 42nd Coy. 12th Impl. Yeo.), single initial 'M.' and surname spelt 'Elliott'; King's South Africa, two clasps (Lieut., A.S.C.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut., Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Major), these possibly later issues with small impressed naming, generally very fine or better (5)

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Five: Major M.E.Y. Eliot, Tank Corps, Late Imperial Yeomanry, Army Service Corps, Rifle Brigade and Royal Engineers, Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (5885 Pte., 42nd Coy. 12th Impl. Yeo.), single initial 'M.' and surname spelt 'Elliott'; King's South Africa, two clasps (Lieut., A.S.C.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut., Rif. Brig.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Major), these possibly later issues with small impressed naming, generally very fine or better (5)

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Major Mark Erskine Yorke Eliot was born in Chelsea, London and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry at Watford in January 1900, aged 20 years. Posted to the 42nd Company, he served in South Africa and qualified for a three-clasp Medal, but with 'Transvaal' rather than 'Johannesburg' as the final clasp. Commissioned into the Army Service Corps towards the end of the War, he would appear to have reverted to civilian employ soon afterwards, but the advent of hostilities in August 1914 witnessed his return to military service with a Commission in the 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade as a 2nd Lieutenant in March 1915. Transferring to the Royal Engineers as a Captain in September 1916, Eliot actually finished the War as a Major in the Tank Corps. His Mention in Despatches, however, remains unverified.