Engineer Sub Lieutenant George Littleton Elliott, R.N.R. was born in Gateshead, Durham in 1884 and at the time of his death lived at 32, Ivydale Road, Liverpool. he was the third of five children born to George and Ann Elliott (née Woods) His father, a licensed Victualer born in Durham, died 1896 Northumberland. 

George Littleton had joined the crew of Laurentic prior to the outbreak of  World War 1 in August, 1914 and was serving onboard the ship when it was taken over by the Admiralty, as the ship’s 2^nd electrician. It is not clear where he was onboard H.M.S. Laurentic when the ship struck the two mines which resulted in the sinking, or if he actually made it to a lifeboat. His body was never recovered. He is commemorated on The Plymouth Naval Memorial and on his maternal grandparent’s gravestone in Gateshead East Cemetery.
His younger brother Robert Elliott also died in WW1, on the 14th of May 1915, and is  buried in Boulogne, France.
His widow Harriet Louise was left to mourn his loss.