Name
Arthur William Nottage
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/03/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/15501
Royal Sussex Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AIX-NOULETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I.D.11
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town Memorial, Not on the Barkway memorials
Pre War
Arthur William Nottage was born in Barkway, Hertfordshire in 1898, the son of Alice Nottage, and was baptised on 11 December 1898 in Barkway.
On the 1901 Census Arthur was living with his grandparents, Nathan and Sarah Nottage, in High Street, Barkway, where his grandfather was working as a labourer on a farm. His grandmother died in 1904 and by 1911 his grandfather was listed as an inmate of the Royston workhouse. Meanwhile, 12 year old Arthur was living with his mother at the home of Mr Rouse of 58 Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent. It was a boarding house and she was employed as the cook. Alice was recorded as aged 28 and single and Arthur was described as 'adopted'. There were six other people living there, described as boarders.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Hertford and joined the Royal Sussex Regiment, serving with the 9th Battalion in France.
He was killed in action on France on 28 March 1917, aged 19, and is buried in Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
Additional Information
Arthur's sole legatee, Miss Dorothy Sage (otherwise known as Dorothy White) received a war gratuity of £9 10s and pay owing of £6 19s 2d. No pension records have been found.
Arthur's uncle Frederick Nottage served with the Army Service Corps and survived the war.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Paul Johnson
