Name
Arthur Kenneth Tarbet
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/08/1915
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 98 to 102.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham
Pre War
Arthur Kenneth Tarbet, born in Teiko, Japan was the eldest son of William Dempsey and Ada Tarbet. His father was a minister of the church. He became a Tea Planter in Ceylon.
At the outbreak of the Great War he returned the UK and enlisted in the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps as Private 1813.
Wartime Service
He was gazetted to 1st Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 19 April 1915
He is recorded as being landed in Egypt on 17th Nov 1914
He was posted Missing on 5th Sep 1915 in a published Casualty Return but declared Killed in Action on 21st Aug 1915.
Biography
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
