Talk:Harold Edward Elliott

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It would be interesting to learn the truth of the story about the brigade running out of water in the Sinai from a more objective source. The British had been present and fighting in Egypt for over thirty years by then, and staff officers would have perfectly well aware of how much water men and animals needed. Even in temperate climates (eg. Britain) men will be dying after about 2 or 3 days without water, and in the Sinai Desert it must be far less than that, so they can't actually have been completely without water for very long. Even reading between the lines of the story the water was on its way, albeit half a day later than planned, and you'd have to have watched the movie "Gallipoli" a few times too many to think a British general would actually have preferred to see a few thousand of his own men die of thirst than have his beauty sleep disturbed. Maybe they had been issued with plenty but Australian discipline was poor (poor distribution, missing another arranged supply opportunity, or officers & NCOs were not drilled on the importance of making sure men obeyed instructions) so his men ran out quicker than they should have done, and Pompey threw a tantrum and allowed such a legend to grow up to cover his own or some other Australian's embarrassing cock-up. Who can say? Paulturtle (talk) 22:55, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

PTSD and suicide in lead
G'day, given the prominence of Pompey as an example of a WWI soldier with PTSD who took his own life, I would expect to see it mentioned in the lead. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:22, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Should this article be moved?
Is Harold Edward Elliott really his most commonly used name? Should this be moved over the redirect at Pompey Elliott? Or Harold Elliott (general) or similar? The-Pope (talk) 02:39, 15 July 2017 (UTC)