Name
Arthur Summerfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/06/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
52459
Royal Irish Rifles
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KLEIN-VIERSTRAAT BRITISH CEMETERY
V. A. 17.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
Tilehouse St Baptist Church War Memorial, Hitchin,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin,
British Schools Museum Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Summerfield, of 30, Union Rd., Hitchin, Herts.
He was born in Hitchin, was resident there and worked for Waters & Sons of Bancroft, Hitchin. He enlisted in Bedford.
Wartime Service
At first Arthur was given the Regimental Number 38572 in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, but was later posted to the 12th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles with the Number 52459. He was killed in action in Belgium while he was a member of a digging party and a shell burst among them. This was late in the Battle of the Lys when the 12th Battalion was in the 108th Brigade of the 36th Division of the 2nd Army.
Arthur was buried in Plot 5, Row A, Grave 17 in the Klein Vierstraat British Cemetery in Belgium.
Additional Information
His brother Harold was killed on the 16th August 1917.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
