Name
Arthur Albert / Albert Arthur Frost
21/04/1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
622398
Royal Field Artillery
59th Div. Ammunition Col.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Territorial Force War, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3
I. H. 29.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey(*1)
Pre War
Arthur Albert Frost was born on 21st April 1891 in Colchester, Essex, son of Philip John Frost (1858 - 1904) and Rosina Elizabeth Frost (nee Tralan) (1860 - 1944). One of five children, one died in infancy. Matilda 1885, Lilly 1886 and Florence 1890.
Arthur was baptised on 18th January 1892, at St James Church, Colchester. At the time the family were living in White Horse Yard, East Street, St James, Colchester.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 9, living with his parents and sisters Lilly 15, and Florence 11, at 5, Grays Cottages, East Street, Colchester.
His father Philip died in the early part of 1904.
1911 Census has Arthur now aged 19, and working as a Carman (a driver of horse drawn vehicle), living with his widowed mother, at 20 Ipswich Road, Colchester. His Married sister Florence and her husband Maurice Cook were also living there.
Arthur married Elsie May Webb, the daughter of Samuel Webb of Colchester, Essex, in October 1914, at St James Church, Colchester. Elsie remarried in April 1919, in Colchester to Oswald William King.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Arthur was serving in the local Territorial Force. He was Killed in Action on 27th September 1917, and buried in the CWGC Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No3. West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave Ref, I. H. 29.
Additional Information
His wife, Mrs. E. M. King, 9, Greenstead Road, Colchester, Essex, ordered his headstone inscription: "HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE". His widow Elsie May received a widows of 15/- a week. The value of his effects were £10-18s-8d, Pay Owing and £5, War Gratuity which went to his widow Elsie May.
*1 We currently believe this is the man who appears on this memorial, however there is another possible man, Sapper 1663, Arthur Frost.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
