Name
Arthur Grant Bourne Chittenden
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/09/1914
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Manchester Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONTREUIL-AUX-LIONS BRITISH CEMETERY
Sp. Mem. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
DO THY DUTY THAT IS BEST LEAVE UNTO THY LORD THE REST THE LEGEND BEAUTIFUL
UK & Other Memorials
Individual plaque, St Augustine’s Church, Broxbourne
Pre War
Arthur Grant Bourne CHITTENDEN was born in Epson, Surrey, in
the summer of 1894, the son of Charles Grant Thomas Faithfull Chittenden a
Banker’s Clerk and Eliza Cummins (nee Wheeler). The youngest of three sons Charles
(B 1889), Hugh (B 1893) & Arthur (1894).
Baptised on 10th July 1894, at St Martin’s
Church, Epsom, Surrey. At the time the family were living at 2 Herne Villas,
Epsom, Surrey.
1901 Census, the family had moved to Priory View, Grosvener
Road, St Albans, Herts, Arthur (6) and brother Hugh (8) where at home being
looked after by their Governess and two Domestic Servants, a Cook and a
Housemaid, their parent are recorded as Boarders at Tort House, Coburg Road,
Sidmouth, Devon. Possible their parents were on holiday.
1911 Census records Arthur aged 16, a Pupil at the Eastman
Royal Naval Academy, at Winchester, Hampshire, (a preparatory school for
training boys for the Royal Navy).
Arthur joined the Army before the war, Gazetted Second
Lieutenant to the Manchester Regiment on 24th January 1914.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Arthur and the 2nd
Battalion were stationed at the Curragh, Co Kildare, Ireland, mobilized for war
they arrived at Le Havre, France, on 14th August 1914. Arthur was
Wounded in Action and died the same day 9th September 1914.
Arthur is buried in Montreuil-Aux-Lions British Cemetery
which was constructed after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the Battlefields
of the Aisne. Arthur is commemorated on one of the 16 special Memorials in the
Cemetery.
Additional Information
His effects of £35, went to his mother Eliza Cummins
Chittenden.
His Medal Index Card (MID) records he was awarded the 1914
Star, Clasp & Roses, the British and Victory Medals, the Roses were not
issued as the Roses go on the 1914 Star Ribbon when worn on a jacket, as Arthur
had died the Roses were not issued
Both his brothers served and survived the war. 2nd
Lieutenant Charles Cummins Chittenden, Army Service Corps and 2nd Lieutenant
(Temp Captain) Hugh Faithfull Chittenden M.C., Royal Sussex Regiment.
The inscription on his Memorial “DO THY DUTY THAT IS BEST
LEAVE UNTO THY LORD THE REST THE LEGEND BEAUTIFUL “was requested by Mrs. E. C.
Chittenden, High Croft, Steyning, Sussex. His mother.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
