Name
Arthur Massey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/02/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14563 (poss 14562)
Suffolk Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
I. C. 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of George Henry Massey and Elizabeth of 43, Sunnyside, Hitchin. His father was a timber merchant. The 1911 census shows Arthur living at 102 Nightingale Rd, Hitchin with parents and brothers Percy and Ernest. Arthur was a Timber Carter by trade.
He was born in Hitchin, but worked and enlisted in Ipswich.
Wartime Service
He was posted to the 8th Battalion of the Regiment with the Regimental Number 14563. The 8th Battalion was part of the 53rd Brigade in the 18th Division at the time of his death. At first he was an officer's servant then became the Quartermaster's head scout.
He was of a quiet reserved nature. but well thought of in the army. He had been at the front for six months when he was killed in action after being hit by a shell. At the time the Battalion was probably positioned just north of the Somme where the British and French Armies met.
He was buried in Plot I, Row C, Grave 19 in the Albert Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
