Name
Arthur Moules
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/10/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2691
East Surrey Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ROMERIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
IV. C. 18.
France
Headstone Inscription
HE IS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, FOREVER WITH THE LORD
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock
Pre War
Arthur Moules was born in 1888 in Baldock, Hertfordshire. It has not been possible to positively identify his parents. (possibly William and Susan Moules or single mother Ellen Moules).
He married Maud Ellen Goddard in 1908 and on the 1911 Census they were living at Barkers Yard, Baldock, at which time they had two children, Emily, b. 1909 and Alice b. 1910. Arthur was then working as a bricklayer's labourer. They later lived at 30 Cemetery Road, Baldock, and had a further three children, Violet b. 1912, Arthur b. 1915 and Maud b. 1918.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin and joined the East Surrey Regiment, serving with the 1st Battalion in France from 5 October 1915.
He had joined the Army in September 1914 and was killed in action on 20 October 1918 only a few weeks before the Armistice. He is buried in Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £19 and pay owing of £7 15s 3d. She also received a pension of £1 17s 11d a week for herself and her five children.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
