Name
Arthur Robert Poney
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/03/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
12392
Coldstream Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE
II. A. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
Not on the Croxley Green memorials
Pre War
Born on 2 Jun 1893 and christened on 1 Jul 1893 in Croxley Green, Watford son of George and Emily Edith (Hunt) Poney.
In 1901 the family, parents and 5 siblings together with their housekeeper and her tow children were living at 30 High Road, Broxbourne and his father was then a police constable.
He was later working as a baker's assistant with his two brothers in Potter Street Bakery, Harlow in 1911. His father, then a widower, was the Cemetery Superintendent and living in the Cemetery Lodge, Ware Road, Hoddesdon.
Officially recorded as born in Watford and was living in Hoddesdon when he enlisted in Stratford. It is believed from the census records, that his place would more accurately be Croxley Green.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Stratford and was killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
