Name
Arthur George Mooring
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/10/1915
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7278
Coldstream Guards
3rd. Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
IV C 21
France
Headstone Inscription
AT REST
UK & Other Memorials
Markyate Village Memorial, St John The Baptist Church Memorial, Markyate, Individual plaque, St John The Baptist Church Memorial, Markyate
Pre War
Arthur George Mooring was born 1888 in Markyate to Thomas Mooring, farmer’s son and Sarah Ann (nee George).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Thomas was a carman & coal dealer, Arthur and Maud (born 1890) were living at Pickfords Hill, Flamstead.
On the 1901 Census( the family of parents, Arthur, Maud, Eva (born 1895) and Albert (born1889) were living at High Street, Markyate.
On the 1911 census Arthurs parents, Maud, a book keeper, Eva, straw hat machinist, were living at 67 High Street, Markyate.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in London in the Coldstream Guards as Private 7278 on 1 Jun 1907. No Service Record was found for Arthur (Guards Regiment Records are archived with their Regiments and are not easily accessible). At the outbreak of the Great War 3rd Battalion were situated at Chelsea Barracks, Arthur was likely to have been serving and went with 3rd Battalion, part of 4th Guards) Brigade 2nd Division to France on 12 Aug 1914. They were soon in action at Mons (21 Aug 1914). the Retreat from Mons, including the Rearguard Actions of Villers-Cotterets (August), the Battle of the Marne (7 (Sep 1914) and the Battle of the Aisne including participation in the Actions on the Aisne heights (16-18 Sep 1914), The British Expeditionary Force was ordered north into Flanders in the defence of Ypres (19 Oct-22nd Nov 1914) followed by Winter Operations in that area before taking part in the Battle of Festubert (15-25 May 1915).
On 20 Aug 1915 the Guards Division was formed with 3rd Coldstreams now part of 1st Guards Brigade. They took part in the Battle of Loos (25 Sep-15 Oct 1915). On 9th October Guards Divisions were ordered to capture the Quarries and the Fosse 8 / Hohenzollern Redoubt respectively,. However on the 8 Oct the Germans launched a counter attack from that area and this was repulsed with heavy losses.
Arthur was wounded in the fighting on the 8th and died of his wounds at No 9 Casualty Clearing Station on 9 Oct 1915.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £6 10s and arrears of £1 1s 11d was paid to his mother who also received a pension of 5s per week.
Mrs. S. Mooring, his mother, ordered his headstone inscription while living at 65, High St., Markyate, Dunstable, it reads: "AT REST".
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Anne & Gordon Mead
