Name
Arthur Frederick Owen Norris
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
25675
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 48 to 50 and 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Borehamwood memorials, Flitwick War Memorial, Flitwick WW 1 Plaque, St Andrews Church, Memorial Plaque St Lawrence Church, Steppingley
Pre War
Arthur Frederick Owen Norris was born in the second half of 1893, in Haynes, Bedfordshire, son of David Robert Norris, an Estate Game Keeper and Kate Norris (nee Tufnell/Tuffnell). The eldest of seven children, two died in infancy.
1901 Census records Arthur as Frederick aged 7, living with his parents, brother Francis (3) and sister Constance (1) at, “New Lodge”, Church End, Flitwick, Beds.
1911 Census records Arthur aged 18, single, and employed as a Railway Porter, he is boarding with Thomas Coper, in Station Road, Lower Stondon, Beds.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted at Bedford, in January 1916. Posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 25675.
He was killed in action on 30 October 1917, in the area of Poelcappelle, Belgium, during the Second Battle of Passchendaele. (26 October to 10 November 1917). He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing, in Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother Kate received a Dependents Pension of 3/6 a week from 14 May 1918, increased to 5/- a week from 6 November 1918. Her address was given as “Flitwick Lodge” Flitwick, Beds. she also received his effects of £12-8s-0d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £11.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
