Name
Arthur Thomas Payne
15 Jul 1875
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/11/1917
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27753
Suffolk Regiment
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Christ Church, Little Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Arthur Thomas was born in Clophill, Bedfordshire on 15 July 1875 (baptised 20 Aug 1875). The son of Mary Ann Payne and James Payne.
On the 1881 Census the Family of mother, Arthur and Sister Elizabeth (Lizzie born 1881) were living in Shefford Beds, with a lodger Sarah Willison.
On the 1891 Census His mother, Arthur, Elizabeth and Charles (born 1884 were living at 6 High Street , Clophill, with Thomas Lincoln, agricultural Labourer, his wife Fanny Lincoln and their step daughter Ellen.
Arthur married Ellen Selina Roberts in 1906 at Hatfield,
On the 1911 census Arthur was a nurseryman living with his wife Ellen Selina and their daughter Emily (born 1906) and son Arthur (born 1909) in Thornton Road, Little Heath. Also recorded was l lodger, Patrick Burke There would be further children, James e (born 1 Oct 1911) and Herbert C (born 9 Feb 1915).
Wartime Service
.Arthur originally enlisted at Mill Hill in the Middlesex Regiment and given service number G/21452.
There is a record of 200 men of Middlesex Regiment transferring into Suffolk Regiment. 12 (Service) Battalion, Arthur was now Private 27753 in this unit, as part of 121 Brigade 40 Division went to France on 6 Jun 1916 landing at Le Havre. They were deployed to the Loos area from Jun to Oct 1916. They followed the Germans as they retreated to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of 1917 and took part in the initial attacks o=in the Battle Cambrai (20-21 Nov 1917) and Boulon Wood (23-28 Nov 1917). During these actions that Arthur was reported missing at Graincourt and his death of killed in action was presumed to be 22 Nov 1917. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £ 10s and arrears of £5 5s 1d was paid to his widow.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Martin Cope
