Name
Peter Allan Arnett
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/06/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
424318
Canadian Infantry
27th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S HATFIELD (ST. LUKE) CHURCHYARD
I. I. 20.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishops Hatfield memorials
Pre War
Son of James Arnett and born 16th January 1897 in Shallow Lake, Ontario.
Working as a farmer he attested on the 1st April, 1915 in Brandon, Manitoba, which is where his father was living.
Wartime Service
According to the CEF Roll of Honour, he died of wounds in England. It is quite possible he was recuperating in a hospital nearby and he eventually passed away from his injuries”.
Herts Advertiser of 24.6.1916 recorded: “Arnett Funeral Military Funeral – Pte Peter Allan Arnett was buried at Hatfield Cemetery with military honours on Tuesday afternoon. Deceased who was a nephew of Mrs Allen, housekeeper at Hatfield House, was only 19 years of age and belonged to the 27th Battn. 6th Brigade, 2nd Canadian Division. He arrived in England from Canada in September of last year and after training at Shorncliffe, was drafted to the front, on Feb 16? last. In the recent severe fighting he was badly wounded in the thigh on Sunday week? and died at the Ontario Military Hospital in Orpington Gate on Friday of last week. The body was brought to Hatfield by train and was met by an escort of Royal Engineers and a firing party of 14 men of No 4 Company Quartermaster, Sergt Panter? and Sergt Bayliss. In addition to the relatives, Lady Salisbury and several members of the R Es and Volunteers followed the cortege. The service was impressively conducted by the Rev. G F Baxter and on its conclusion the usual volleys were fired and the Bugler George Bucklar? of the Hatfield Troop of Boy Scouts sounded the “Last Post”.”
Additional Information
Peter's grave is not a CWGC grave, and does not have a CWGC headstone, which perhaps suggests he had family locally. The headstone bears the inscription:
In loving memory of
PETER ALAN ARNETT THE 27TH BATTN. 6TH BRIGADE, SECOND CANADIAN DIVISION, WHO DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION AT SAINT ELOI.
JUNE 16 1916, AGED 19 YEARS.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
