Name
Arthur Salmon
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/07/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
57325
Lancashire Fusiliers
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Kimpton Village Memorial, Kimpton, Not on the Codicote memorials, Not on the Welwyn Village memorials
Pre War
Arthur Salmon was born in Codicote, Herts in 1899, the son of Elizabeth Salmon, and was baptised in Codicote on 30 August 1901. He was one of eight children born to his mother who was unmarried. (N.B. The Christening Index gives his birth as 29 May 1900, however there is a birth registration in the September quarter 1899 and he was said to have been 19 when he died in 1918).
On the 1901 Census he was living at The Barracks, Codicote, with his grandfather John Salmon who was working as a Roadsman for the HCC, his mother and three siblngs.
They remained living in Codicote on the 1911 Census, by which time his widowed grandfather was listed as a General Labourer (retired) and his mother was said to be a Labourer (worker in fields). Arthur was working as a Farm Labourer. The family had then been joined by another three children.
Prior to enlistment he was employed by Mr Bell of Sisserfern Farm, Codicote and his mother later lived at Church Lane, Kimpton, Welwyn, Herts.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in Watford, Herts, and joined the 16th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers.
The newspaper article reporting his death gave the following information: His mother, who was living in Church Lane, Kimpton. was told in August 1918 that Arthur had been missing in action since July 3rd. She did not know for over a year that he had died and spent much of that time asking for news. Eventually the records office in Preston (Lancs) confirmed that he was presumed killed on the date he went missing.
He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £5.10s and there were no arrears of pay owing. She also received a pension of five shillings a week. His older brother Robert who was called up on 29 May 1916, joining the Bedfordshire Regiment, was discharged on 25 August 1916 as "not being likely to become an efficient soldier on medical grounds",
On some records the surname of Salmon is given as Salmons.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts,
