Name
Arthur Whitman
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17572
Norfolk Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 1 C and 1 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Wall Memorial, Potten End, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Not on the Hemel Hempstead Memorials
Pre War
Arthur Whitman was born in 1893 in Studham, Beds, the son of William and Annie Whitman.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at No. 10 Nettleden, Berkhamsted, Herts where his father was working as a General Agricultural Farm Labourer. They had moved to Potten End, Berkhamsted by 1911 and Arthur was working as a House Painter.
He married Grace Groome in 1913 and had a son, William Arthur, born 24 September the same year. They lived at 2 Alma Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Watford and served with the 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment in France from 11 October 1915.
He was killed in action on or since 27 July 1916 during the Battle of Delville Wood, part of the Battle of the Somme. He is one of 91 soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment who died on that day and have no known grave. Their names are commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £6 10s and pay owing of £2 16s 1d. She also received a war pension of 15 shillings, which was increased to 18s 9d a week on 4 April 1917.
Grace remarried on 9 June 1917 to Driver E Spencer of 50th Reserve Battery RFA.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
