Name
Arthur George Bunby
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/05/1915
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
13865
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Arthur was born in 1886 in Stoke Poges the son of Edward P and Mary Bunby. Edward was a General Labourer. Arthur was brought up in that area as part of their large family, but in 1911 was boarding with Samuel Carter and family at 38 New Road, Croxley Green and working as a Farm Labourer.
In 1914 he married Kate Maskell and their son Edward A Bunby was born shortly after their marriage. At Arthur’s death Kate was living in Bury Lane, Rickmansworth. She did not remarry and died in 1959 age 82.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
Arthur was killed in fierce, at times hand to hand, fighting in the vicinity of Hill 60 during the Second Battle of Ypres which took place during April and May 1915. The Battalion War Diary states that shortly after 8 am on the 5th of May the Germans attacked with asphyxiating gas, killing a few men and affecting the rest. Hill 60 was lost and the trenches were attacked all day with bombs, rifles and machine guns. It was a terrible day made worse by misdirected fire into their own trenches from their own artillery causing many casualties.
Private Joseph Crawley died in the same action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins
