Name
Arthur William Worbey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/09/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
28715
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
6th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 6B
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
4 Co' Hertfordshire Reg' Territorials’ Memorial, Hitchin,
Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin,
British Schools Museum Memorial, Hitchin,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
His mother was Martha Worbey of 15, Anderson's Row, Florence Street, Hitchin and he was her eldest son.
He was a resident of Hitchin and was employed at Roxley Court in Willian. He enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
At first, Arthur, was in No. 4 Company of the Hertfordshire Regiment with the Regimental Number 3774.
He was discharged on medical grounds, but re-enlisted and went to France in August 1916 with the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry with the Regimental Number 28715. He was reported as missing and nearly a year later was declared to have been killed in action.
On the day of his death, the Battalion was in the 43rd Brigade of the 14th (Light) Division and launched an attack on Gird and Gird Support Trenches in front of Guedecourt in the Somme sector, moving forward in a single wave.
At 9.25am heavy machine-gun fire from the right brought the assault to a standstill. A renewed attack at 6.55pm was also a failure. The casualties were heavy.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Pier and Face 6B of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
