Name
Arthur Jonathan Munt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
890206
Royal Field Artillery
386th Battery (Hertfordshire)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Arthur Munt was born in the spring of 1898 at Abbots Langley. He was one of seven children (three sons and four daughters) born to William and Annie Munt. Arthur’s brother Leonard also served in the Great War, as did his cousin Harry and brother in law James Kingham. In the 1881 and 1891 Census the family was shown living at Bedmond, but by 1901 they had moved to 59 Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley, where William worked as a Farm Labourer, and they continued to live at this address at the time of the 1911 Census.
The National Roll of the Great War noted that Arthur volunteered in 1915. He was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in June 1915, serving with the Hertfordshire Royal Field Artillery (RFA). The National Roll publication recorded that Arthur was drafted to Mesopotamia in 1915 and that he saw much action in that theatre of war. He was engaged in the heavy fighting to attempt to relieve the besieged city of Kut.
Arthur was pictured in the Watford Illustrated newspaper on 18th January 1916, and served with the RFA in Mesopotamia throughout the War. He returned to England on the cessation of hostilities and was demobilised in April 1919.
He was recorded in the Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919, where he was listed serving as a Gunner with the 386th Battery of the RFA. His address was given at 59 Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley.
Arthur Munt survived the War as did his brother Leonard, his cousins Harry and Frank and his brother in law from Kings Langley, James Kingham.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
