Name
Arthur Edward Sale
1876
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/10/1918
44
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
26615
King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA
624
Greece
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock, Not on the Wallington memorial
Pre War
Arthur Edward Sale was born in Wallington, Hertfordshire in 1876, the son of Edward and Sarah Sale (nee Kidman), and was baptised on 19 October 1876 at Wallington.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at The Bury Farm, Wallington, where his father was farming 800 acres employing 23 men and 7 boys. They also employed 2 servants in the farmhouse. By the 1891 Census he was recorded as a 14 year old pupil at Christ's College, Finchley, London.
Prior to his marriage, on the 1901 Census (which was taken on 31 March), Arthur was living in the High Street, Baldock, and working as a farm bailiff. He married Margaret Gilchrist on 3 April 1901 in Wallington Parish Church, Hertfordshire and their child Agnes Kyle was born on 16 January 1902 at Baldock. They remained in Baldock in 1911, then living at Pembroke Road, and Arthur continued to work as a farm bailiff. Other sources state that he had been employed as a Foreman on his uncle’s farm.
His parents later lived at 37 Ickleford Road, Hitchin, Herts.
Wartime Service
According to his service record, he enlisted in Hitchin on 29 November 1915 and was placed in the army reserve, only being mobilised on 19 June 1916. He was posted to the 8th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment on 1 September 1916, but just over a month later, on 20 October 1916, he was transferred to the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and left from Devonport on 4 November 1916. He arrived in Salonika on 16 November 1916, joining his unit in the field on 25 November.
He was wounded in the chest in late September 1918 and admitted to the 28th General Hospital in Salonika on 5 October 1918. Arthur died of his wounds on 14 October 1918, aged 44, and is buried in Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria, Greece.
Additional Information
His widow received war gratuity of £10 and pay owing of £14 6s 11d. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week for herself and her child.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
