Name
Arthur Oscar Timberlake
18/04/1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
22836
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 6 and 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Kings Langley Village Memorial,
All Saints Church memorial, Kings Langley,
John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Home Park Mill, Kings Langley
Pre War
Arthur Oscar Timberlake was a twin, born on 18 April 1889, in Kings Langley, Herts, son of John Timberlake, a Postman, and Clarice Timberlake (nee Bunyan). One of eight children, John (B 1873), Frederick (B 1877), Kate (B 1880), Charles (B 1882), Joseph (B 1884), Rosa (B 1889), (Arthurs Twin sister) and Francis (B 1892).
Arthur was Baptised on 5 March 1890, with his twin sister Rosa, in the Parish Church, Kings Langley, Herts.
1891 Census records Arthur aged 1, living with his parents, and six siblings in, Waterside, Kings Langley.
On 9 March 1900, in Kings Langley, his father died, aged 52.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 11, living with his widowed mother and seven siblings at, The Bridge, Kings Langley.
1911 Census records Arthur aged 21, working at the local Paper Mill, living with his widowed mother and four siblings in, Waterside, Kings Langley.
At the time of his enlistment Arthur was employed by John Dickinson & Co at their Home Park Paper Mill.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in February 1916, at Watford, Herts. Posted to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment with the service number 22836.
He was wounded in August 1916, at the Battle of the Somme, (1 July 1916 to 18 November 1916), returning to the front in February 1917. It is not known when he was promoted to Lance Corporal. Arthur was Killed in Action near Arleux Wood, near Arras, on 28 April 1917, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France.
Additional Information
The value of his effects was £5-11s-2d, Pay Owing and £4-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to his mother Clarice.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
