David Elliott
David Lloyd ("Smoky") Elliott (1923–1999) was a Canadian poet. David Elliott was born in Garnish, Newfoundland and Labrador, Elliott grew up in a number of Newfoundland fishing outports, but spent most of his youth in Campbellton, Notre Dame Bay. He left school at age fifteen to become a telegraph operator and later served in World War II. In his memoir, A Soldier First, General Rick Hillier, retired Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces, recalls borrowing books from David Elliott while a boy growing up in Campbellton, and recounts the story that Elliott served in military intelligence during the Second World War.
David Elliott
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 1999
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- poet
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David Lloyd ("Smoky") Elliott (1923–1999) was a Canadian poet. David Elliott was born in Garnish, Newfoundland and Labrador, Elliott grew up in a number of Newfoundland fishing outports, but spent most of his youth in Campbellton, Notre Dame Bay. He left school at age fifteen to become a telegraph operator and later served in World War II. In his memoir, A Soldier First, General Rick Hillier, retired Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces, recalls borrowing books from David Elliott while a boy growing up in Campbellton, and recounts the story that Elliott served in military intelligence during the Second World War.
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Born in 1923, died in 1999.
David Elliott (1923–1999) was a Canadian poet.
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