Name
Frank Henry Arnold
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/07/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
C/10
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRIN MILITARY CEMETERY
G.22
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green, All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green, John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Croxley Mill, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
Pre War
Frank was born in Kingston-upon-Thames to Samuel and Harriet Arnold and he was baptised there on 31 May 1896. His father worked as an ironmonger’s carman and the family was still living in Kingston in 1901.
By 1911 Frank was part of a large family . He had eight siblings. They had moved to live at 251 New Road, Croxley Green where both Frank and his father worked as labourers at Croxley Mill.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
Frank Arnold was one of the Croxley Church Lads who joined the 16th KRRC at the outbreak of war.
He enlisted on 17 September 1914 and, after training in England, went to France on 16 November 1915. On I July 1916 they were still on a northern sector of the front at Cuinchy, near Givenchy. It was here that Frank was killed on 2 July, aged 20. On the night of 1-2 July, the battalion sent a party of 5 officers and 40 men across no-man’s-land to raid the enemy trenches. Only 24 men made it back to the British lines that night. 5 men were killed including Frank, and his body was only recovered later under cover of darkness.
Acknowledgments
Brian Thomson, Croxley Green in the First World War, Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014
