Name
Arthur David Isaac
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/05/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
16997
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. AMAND BRITISH CEMETERY
III.B.4
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Welwyn Village memorials, Market Harborough and District Hospital - WW1 memorial, Market Harborough, Market Harborough, Great and Little Bowden Memorial, Market Harborough Falmouth War Memorial, Cornwall
Pre War
Arthur David Isaac was born in 1895 in Medbourne, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, the son of Thomas and Emily Isaac (nee Goodall), later of Devon House, Market Harborough Leics.
On the 1901 Census, the family were living at Manor House, Medbourne, where his father was a Huntsman to the Hounds.
By 1911 Census, although his parents remained in Market Harborough, Arthur was boarding with Henry Crowley and family in Aldbury, Tring, Herts and working as a groom at the training stables. He was said to be living in Welwyn on enlistment.
He married Laura Evelyn Hopkins in late 1917 in Paddington and they had a son Arthur John Henri who was born on 27 February 1918.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Luton and initially joined the Suffolk Regiment, (reg. no. 46790), later transferring to the 6th Bedfordshire Regiment.
He served in France from 27 Apr 1915, as part of a draft of 300 men and 3 officers which arrived at Ouderdom, Belgium on 30 April.
He was was serving with 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in support trenches at Rettermoy Farm, Bucquoy when he was killed by an aerial bomb on 6 May 1918.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £17 10s and pay owing was divided between his widow and his child. She also received a pension of £1 0s 5d a week for herself and her child.
His brother John Goodall Isaac served in Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and Machine Gun Corps, winning the Military Medal but was killed in action on 19 August 1916.
His widow remarried to Horace Green in 1921 and lived at 49 Killigrew Road, Falmouth. Horace Green died in early 1932, aged 41 and she married for the third time to Joseph Cooke in late 1932 in Falmouth.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Brenda Palmer
Brenda Palmer
