Name
Arthur Pechey Spanton
1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/11/1916
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4125
Honourable Artillery Company
No. 3 Coy. 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MESNIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
111.B.4
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Monken Hadley Village Memorial, Hadley Common Village Memorial Hadley Wood Memorial, Solicitors and Articled Clerks, Holborn, King Edward Vi School Memorial
Pre War
Son of William Silas Spanton & Sarah (nee Pechey) of Blackheath. Residents of ‘Greencroft’ Hadley Crescent in 1911.
In the 1881, 1891 and 1901 Census he was living at 16 Abbeygate Street, Bury St. Edmunds, with parents and siblings.
Between 1911 -1913, including the census, he was living at Greencroft, 63 Crescent West, Hadley Wood.
28 Jul 1915 he was living at 15 New Broad Street, EC and his father was living at 1 The Paragon, Blackheath. Prior to enlistment he was a solicitor.
Wartime Service
28 Jul 1915 he enlisted into the Honourable Artillery Company at Armoury House.
Arthur was Killed in Action on 1 Nov 1917 and is buried at Mesnil Community Cemetery
Additional Information
Back pay and gratuities of £15 1s 9d and his estate after probate of £148 14s 8d paid to his sister Helen
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams
David Harbott
