John Elliott (British boxer)

John "Jack" Elliott (12 October 1901 – 3 July 1945) was a British middleweight boxer who competed in the 1920s.^[1][2]

Jack Elliott

Personal information
Full name	John Elliott
Nationality	British (English)
Born	(1901-10-12)12 October 1901 Hoxton, London, England
Died	3 July 1945(1945-07-03) (aged 43) Balikpapan, Indonesia
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Medal record Men's Boxing Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 1924 Paris Middleweight

Biography

Elliott won a silver medal in boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, losing against the successful British boxer Harry Mallin in the final bout. He won the Amateur Boxing Association 1924^[3] and 1925^[4] middleweight title, when boxing out of the Polytechnic Boxing Club.^[5]

At some point following his Olympic appearance, Elliott emigrated to Australia. On 8 April 1941, a year-and-a-half after the outbreak of the Second World War, he enlisted in the Australian Army in Paddington, New South Wales, giving his residence as Sydney.^[6] He was discharged as a staff sergeant in 1943 and became a war correspondent.^[6] On 3 July 1945, while covering the invasion of Balikpapan with fellow journalist William Smith, Elliott went ahead of the advancing Australian troops; a Bren gunner, believing them to be Japanese troops, shot and killed them both.^[7][8]