Name
Arthur Leonard Ware
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
39268
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 Ware was born in the winter of 1880 at Staines in Middlesex. He was one of ten children (five sons and five daughters) born to John and Mary Ware. The family lived in the Staines area from 1871. John worked as a Labourer at a Mustard Mill. At the time of the 1901 Census Arthur and his brother Horace were both employed as a Labourers at a Linoleum Factory.
However Arthur left the family home to get married in 1910. The 1911 Census recorded that he was employed as an Attendant on Insane at the Asylum at Leavesden, and he lived with his wife and young son (born in 1910) at Asylum Cottages, Abbots Langley. Annie Blackwell, also an Attendant at the Asylum lived with them as a Boarder.
The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour recorded Arthur for the first time in October 1914, serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). Many Attendants from the Asylum joined up with the RAMC. Arthur’s Medal Roll Card indicated that he was sent to France on 26th September 1915.
In July 1918 the Parish Magazine reported that Arthur was a Prisoner of War, in Germany. He probably had been captured during the German Spring Offensive of March and April 1918. The Parish Magazine also noted that a daughter was born to the family on 7th July 1918 at Abbots Langley.
Arthur was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 serving with the 77th Field Ambulance (RAMC), and presumably he was serving with this unit prior to his capture and imprisonment. His address was given at 25 Asylum Cottages.
Arthur Ware survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
