Name
Arthur Lovell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/11/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
50477
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
54th Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BEIRUT WAR CEMETERY
123
Lebanon
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Arthur Lovell was born in 1892 (baptised 14 Jul 1894) in Tring to Alfred Lovell, labourer, and Mary (nee Hart).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents Elizabeth, Frederick (born 1890), Arthur (born 1892), Sidney (born 1895), Lily (born 1897), Annie (born 1898) and Alice (born 1901) were living at Willow Court, 78, Akeman Street, Tring.
On the 1911 Census Arthur (bricklayer’s labourer) and was living with his parents, Frederick was a dairyman , Sidney (driver, engine builder’s), Lily (paper mill worker), Annie, Alice and Florrie (born 1904), Alfred (born 1907) and Gladys (born 1911) were living at 75, Akeman Street, Tring.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Arthur. He orignally enlisted in the Norfolk Regiment as a Territorial Soldier Private 5785 (his War Gratuity suggests that he enlisted in 1914 and later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps on its inception as Private 50477.
Following his training at Belton, near Grantham he was posted to 54 Company MGC in 54 (East Anglian) Division which was deployed in Egypt following the Gallipoli Campaign. The Division to part in the Gaza Campaign in 1917 (Battles of Gaza and Jaffa), and in 1918 arrived in Beirut on 30 Oct prior to the Turkish Armistice on 31 Oct. Arthur had taken ill on 14 Nov and was treated at 15 Casualty Clearing Station but died on 16 Nov 1918.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £19 10s and arrears of £36 3s 3d was paid to his mother.
Brother Frederick served in 13 Battalion, Essex Regiment and was killed in action on the Somme on 2 Aug 1916, Brother Sidney served in Ox & Bucks Light Infantry going to France on 30 Mar 1915 and survived the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
