Name
Arthur Gordon Cade (DSO, MC & Bar)
3rd Jul 1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
2nd Bn. Wiltshire Regiment, 1st Bn. (Commanding)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Mentioned in Despatches three times, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross and Bar three times
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 113 to 115.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath, Haileybury College Memorial, Hertford Heath, Haileybury College Chapel Roll of Honour, Hertford Heath, Bengeo School Memorial – Location TBC, Park Garden Of Remembrance, Palmers Green Greater London, Christ Church WW1 and WW2), Southgate, Greater London
Pre War
Arthur Gordon Cade was born 3rd July 1891, in Wood Green, Middx, to parents Edwin Arthur and Sarah Elizabeth (nee Smith), he had three sisters and one brother. The 1901 census has him living at The Green, Southgate, with his family and his father’s occupation was a Director of Public Companies.
Arthur (also known as Jim) was educated at Bengeo school, Danesbury, Bengeo, Hertford and went on to Hailleybury College, Hertford Heath, 1905-1908. In 1911 he was living at The Chestnuts, Southgate, London, with his widowed mother and his sister Theo Daphne and he was employed as a Stockbrokers Clerk.
Arthur joined the O.T.C at the Inns of Court on 29 Mar 1909 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 7 May 1910 in the London Regiment 11th Bn. He passed the Officers Examination in October 1913 and transferred to the Middlesex Regt., who were based in Mill Hill, not far from the family home and was sent to Malta for training in 1913.
Wartime Service
Additional Information
Probate records record him residing at Bay Tree Cottage, Old Southgate, Middx at the time of his death and he left £811 19s to his wife Ada. His medal roll index card states they were sent to his wife at Twynax Cottage, Middle Bourals, Farnham, Surrey.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour, Ann Hacke, Terry & Glenis Collins