Name
Arthur Charles Whittering
9 August 1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31497
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Kimpton Village Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church, Kimpton, Not on the Welwyn Village memorials
Pre War
Arthur Charles Whittering was born on 9 August 1884 in Welwyn, Herts, the son of James Henry and Mary Whittering and one of four children. He was baptised at St Mary's Welwyn on 7 September 1884.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at High Street, Kimpton where his father was working as a butcher and Arthur was a blacksmith's apprentice. His mother died in 1903 and on the 1911 Census his widowed father was a boarder at the home of widow Harriet Towell in Hanworth, Middx.
Arthur married Alice Mary Marlow in early 1908 and they had a son Herbert Marlow Whittering born in Kimpton on 21 September 1909. On the 1911 Census he was living with his wife and son at the home of his father in law Robert Marlow at High Street, Kimpton, Herts and working as a Blacksmith.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in St Albans and joined the Bedfordshire Regiment serving with the 1st Battalion in France.
He was listed as missing during the attack on La Coulotte (part of the Battle of Arras) and death was presumed on 23 April 1917 when he was aged 32. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His widow Alice received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 9s 7d. She also received a pension of 18s 9d a week for herself and her child.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, www.bedfordregiment.org.uk,
