Field message Book of Captain L.A. Elliot, [sic Elliott] Adjutant of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, 1918 Department of Military Training. (Canadian Officers' Training Corps .) Names submitted and approved for commission, C .O.T.C . : Captain L. A . Elliott, 72nd Seaforth Highlanders, Adjutant. Housewife - black oil cloth with red cloth liner. Inside THE button down flap at bottom on inside it reads: "48th HIGHLANDER 1899-1909 72nd HIGHLANDERS 1911 - No. 300 Corpl. L.A. ELLIOTT 3RD (S.S.) Battalion. ROYAL CANADIAN REGT. - 1900 - 6th D.C.O.R 1909-1911 1893- 1ST W. YORK VOL. R.E. 1897" HE WAS POSSIBLY TOO OLD FOR WW I AND SERVED AS THE ADJUDANT OF THE 72ND SEAFORTHS IN CANADA AND NOT IN THE 72ND BN CEF The Canadian Officer Training Corps was formed immediately after the ontbreak of war and existed for one year as the McGill University College contingent. In 1915 the Corps was organized as the University of British Columbia contingent of the C.O.T.C. with the Late Dr. Wesbrook as Captain and Provisional Major, Mr. E. E. Jordan as Captain, and Mr. Harry T. Logan as Lieutenant. The duties of Adjutant were undertaken by an officer of the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders, Captain L. A. Elliott, who, in spite of his ever-increasing duties in connection with his own and other regiments, never lost interest in the Corps from this time until it was finally disbanded.