Name
Arthur Waller
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/12/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203952
Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
3rd/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FLESQUIERES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY
VIII. E. 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial, Waltham Cross
Pre War
No positive information was found for Arthur Waller’s early life.
Arthur married Lizzie Rogers the daughter of William and
Eliza Rogers of Cheshunt, Herts, in 1913, the marriage was registered in
Edmonton, Middx. They went on the have three children, Alice May, born 1914,
Arthur Albert Ernest, born 1915, and William Henry, born 1916.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the “Queens
Own” (Royal West Kent Regiment) with the service number 203952. On completion
of his training he was sent to France, seeing action on the Western Front, he
was Killed in Action on 30th December 1917, he is buried in
Flesquiers Hill British Cemetery, in France. Grave Ref; VIII. E. 4.
Additional Information
Lizzie received a grant of £5, on 21st January
1918, a widow’s pension of £2-9s-7d, a week from 15th July 1918, and
his effects of £6-00s-07d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3.
Lizzie’s brother Private 51676 Albert Rogers of the 1st
Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, died on 14th November 1918, and is
buried in the Cologne Southern Cemetery in Germany, which may suggest he was a
Prisoner of War. (Formerly Private 4952 with the Bedfordshire Regiment).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
