Name
Horace William Arnold
29/04/1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
41991
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOUZINCOURT RIDGE CEMETERY, ALBERT
I. D. 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Chipperfield Memorials, Not on the Watton-at-Stone Memorial
Pre War
Horace William Arnold was born on 29 April 1891, in Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire son of George Arnold, a Game Keeper and Harriet (nee Tuffnell) Arnold. One of four children. Baptised on 16 August 1891, at St Paul’s Walden, Herts.
1901 Census records Horace aged 9, living with his parents, brothers Fred (B 1889) and Cecil (B 1896) at White Lodge, St Paul’s Walden, Herts.
1911 Census has Horace and brother Fred working as Wood Cutter Labourers in Maidstone, they were boarding with Widow, Harriet Mace, at 305, Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, Kent. (Horace and Fred are recorded as Arnoll not Arnold). His parents and brother Cecil had also moved and were now living in Godmersham, Kent, where his father was employed as a Game Keeper, assisted by Cecil (15).
It is believed Horace married Frances Mary Berry in 1915, in Hambledon, Surrey, and they had one son Ronald George Arnold born in September 1917.
Wartime Service
Horace enlisted at Bedford, posted to the Suffolk Regiment with the service number 53056, later transferred to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 41991. (The SDITGW have him as formerly with the Cambridgeshire Regiment with the service number 328370, no other record was found to confirm this).
He was Killed in Action on 1 July 1918, and is buried in the CWGC Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert, France.
Additional Information
His wife Frances received a widows pension of 20/5 a week from 13 January 1919, also his effects of £5-5s-7d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £4-10s-00d, her address was, Kings Road, Haslemere, Surrey. No connection with Chipperfield, Herts, was found, other than SDITGW which states he was residing in Chipperfield.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox
