Name
Arthur Albert Doling
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
44432
Manchester Regiment
20th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POMMEREUIL BRITISH CEMETERY
D. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Southampton, but enlisted in Hitchin under the Derby Scheme on the 29th May 1915. He was married and lived at Gaping Lane, Hitchin.
Before being called up he was employed as a butcher by Mr File of Bucklersbury in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
At first he had the Regimental Number 20834 in the Bedfords but was later Number 44432 in the 20th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. This Battalion was part of the 7th Brigade of the 25th Division in the XIII Corps of the 4th Army. He served in Italy and France and was killed in action in France.
His date of death coincides with the Battle of the Selle near the western edge of Mormal Forest. By 11.30am on that day the 25th Division was crashing through the Bois L'Eveque, but further progress was difficult due to the enemy wire and the exhaustion of our troops.
He was buried in Row D, Grave 23 in the Pommereuil British Cemetery east of Cambrai in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
