Name
Arthur Albert Martindale
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Arthur Martindale was born in the Autumn of 1870 at Bedmond. He was one of ten children (five sons and five daughters) born to George Martindale and his wife. Arthur’s brother, Homer, and son Frank also served in the Great War. The family lived at Pimlico where George worked as a Labourer. By the time of the 1901 Census Arthur had married and had moved to Leavesden, via Willesden, where his eldest son, Frank, was born in 1900. Arthur worked as a Builder’s Labourer. By the time of the 1911 Census the family had moved back to Bedmond, and had had a second son.
Arthur was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in January 1917, serving with the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment (QRWS). At this point he would have be 47 years old, and was probably conscripted as the age limits for conscription continued to be widened, and included older, and older men. Arthur’s younger brother, Homer, had enlisted to the QWRS in December 1915.
Arthur was recorded in the Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1918, Spring 1919, and Autumn 1919.
Arthur Martindale survived the War, as did his son Frank brother Homer. However his nephew George died of wounds on 28th April 1917 in France.
Additional Information
Rank unknown
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
