Strathcona's Horse (at the time a British Regiment recruited in Canada for service in South Africa).
Frank Elliott was born in Bristol, England. The Strathcona's were more British, older, more Anglican and more rural than Canada's other regiments in South Africa. Elliott enlisted in Strathcona's Horse on 15 February 1900 in Ottawa. He was  recommended to the new CO, Col Sam Steele, by LGen Hutton and made a WO1 and appointed RSM. Thus he would have been no youngster and must have had a good deal of previous service - possibly NWMP. According to Steele's Papers he was somehow reduced to the ranks by Steele on one occasion but must have died restored to RSM. It is difficult to understand how this could have been so for warrant officers were in a special class of soldiers who could only be tried and punished by court martial. He is recorded as killed in action in several memorials along with specious accounts of Strathconas guarding railways and trenchwork implying that that was how he died, though his headstone and The Story of South Africa clearly state he died of dysentery.
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