Name
Arthur Golding
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
39915
Royal Army Medical Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Arthur Golding was born in the winter of 1877 at Abbots Langley. He was one of eight children born to William and Fanny Golding (five sons, three daughters). Two of his brothers, Edward and William, both served in the Great War.
William worked as a Coal Merchant’s Labourer, and the family lived at Rose Hill Cottages, Upper Highway, Langleybury. In the 1891 Census Arthur worked as a Farm Labourer (Hedging), but by 1901 was employed as an Asylum Attendant at the Leavesden Asylum
He was listed in the Asylum Roll of Honour which was printed in the Hertfordshire Advertiser newspaper on 17th October 1914, and was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in the same month, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). He continued to be recorded serving with the RAMC for the remainder of the War. In the Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919, he was listed serving with the RAMC at No 11 Stationary Hospital, in France, and his home address was given at 97 Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley.
Arthur Golding survived the War. His brother William was killed in action on 3rd May 1917 whilst serving with the Royal Fusiliers at Arras in France. His other brother, Edward, died on 13th November 1918, probably as a result of wounds he received in 1917. He was serving with the 414th Agricultural Labour Company, and died at Beverley in Yorkshire. Both brothers were recorded throughout the War in the Langleybury records, are included in the Langleybury Roll of Honour, and are also included on the Langleybury War Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
