Name
Arthur William Farrow
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/04/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
16472
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Ipswich, was resident in King's Lynn, but enlisted in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
Arthur was given Regimental Number 16472 and posted to the 1st Battalion of the Bedfords which was part of the 15th Brigade of the 5th Division in II Corps of the 2nd Army. He was killed in action in Belgium.
His death coincides with the Capture of Hill 60 just south of the Ypres Salient. Six tons of explosives had been ignited under the hill at 7.00pm the previous day and the Bedfords waited until 5.30am next morning to support the previous attacks which bad captured the hill. The casualties on both sides were numbered in thousands.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Panels 31 & 33 of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
