Name
Arthur Reedman (MM)
20/01/1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
910228
Canadian Infantry
46th Bn.
'A' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
QUARRY WOOD CEMETERY, SAINS-LES-MARQUION
III. A. 18.
France
Headstone Inscription
"JUST TILL WE MEET MY DEAR HUSBAND AT JESU'S FEET"
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldbury, Aldbury Peace Memorial Institute Memorial, Aldbury
Pre War
Arthur Reedman was born in Far Cotton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, on 20th January 1892, son of Charles Edward Reedman, a Road Mender and Sarah Reedman (nee Hobbs). One of their seven children although 3 died in infancy.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 9, living with his parents, brothers David (13) and Charles (2) in Saunders Crescent, Aldbury, Herts.
In December 1910, we believe Arthur enlisted in the Duke of Wellingtons Regiment (West Riding) with the service No. 10039, and requested to be transferred to the Northamptonshire Fusiliers, after 88 days he bought himself out with the payment of £10.
Abt. 1911 Arthur emigrated to Canada, he was living in Springside, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the outbreak of war.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in on 14th July 1916, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada joining the 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion, (Saskatchewan Regiment) and issue with the service No. 910228. He gave his occupation as a Probationer for the Ministry. On his medical examination it was found the vision in his left eye was poor without glasses, as a result he was only excepted as a Stretcher Bearer.
Arthur embarked the SS “Southland”, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 1st November 1916, arriving at Liverpool, on 11th November 1916.
Arthur married Elsie Maud Hayes, of Elton, Huntingdonshire, the daughter of Josiah and Sarah Ann Hayes on 19th January 1917, at the Warwick Gardens Wesleyan Chapel, Kensington, London. Elsie later moved to 182 Earlham Road, Norwich, Norfolk.
Arthur proceeded overseas on 30th May 1917, seeing action on the Western Front, he received a Gun Shot Wound (GSW) to his left shoulder in November 1917, was awarded the Military Medal for Gallantry and Devotion to duty under fire, exact details not known.
He was Killed in Action on 27th September 1918, at the Battle of the Canal-Du-Nord, France, aged 26, (Battle of the Canal-Du-Nord 27th Sept to 11th Nov 1918), he is buried in Quarry Wood Cemetery, Saint-Les-Marquion, France. Grave Ref: III. A. 18.
Additional Information
His eldest brother Lieutenant William Edward Reedman of the 73rd Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, died of Multiple Gun Shot Wounds on 26th November 1916, at No. 1 Red Cross Hospital, Le Touquet, Pas-de-Calais, France.
Elder brother Corporal 35787 David Thomas Reedman of the Machine Gun Corps survived the war.
The SS “Southland” was torpedoed and sank with the loss of fourteen live on 4th June 1917, by the German U-Boat, U-70, under the Command of Kapitanleutnant (Captain Lieutenant) Otto Wunsche, off the North West Coast of Ireland.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
