Name
Arthur Meyric Bones
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/10/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
South African Mounted Rifles
Attached 1st King's African Rifles
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
IRINGA CEMETERY
IV. B. 3.
Tanzania
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 28 Apr 1893 in Coventry son of Arthur Anderson and Ellen Bones. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1901-09. He emigrated to South Africa.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Apr 1913 in the Cape Mounted Rifles and served in German West and German East Africa later obtaining a commission in the King’s African Rifles. He was killed in action at N’gomeni, Nyasaland after his small force of 216 had withstood 700 Germans for eight days.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
