Name
Arthur George Dyer
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24359
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 6 and 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials, Aylesbury Town Memorial, Bucks
Pre War
Arthur George Dyer was born in 1885 in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, the son of Walter and Mary Dyer and one of eleven children, although two died in infancy.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at 28 Albert Street, Aylesbury, Bucks, where his father was working as a Miller. They had moved to Park Street, Aylesbury by 1901, where his father was a Foreman in a Flour Mill and Arthur was then a labourer in a basket factory.
By the 1911 Census the family were living at 77 Park Street, Aylesbury. His father was not recorded at home at the time of the census. Arthur was then working as a labourer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Aylesbury and joined the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, being posted to the 2nd Battalion.
He was killed in action on 28 April 1917, aged 32, during the Battle of Arras. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 16s 9d. Pension records exist but it is not clear if his mother received a pension. Brother to Sidney who served as Sgt with the Royal Garrison Artillery and died in 1915.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
