Name
Arthur Franklin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
37780
Suffolk Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 4
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born and enlisted in Hitchin and his parents were George and Sarah Franklin of 12, Telegraph Terrace, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
Arthur was allocated Regimental Number 37780 in the 11th Battalion of the Suffolks, which was in the 101st Brigade of the 34th Division in VI Corps of the 3rd Army. At the beginning of his service he had been in the Middlesex Regiment with the Regimental Number 37999. He was killed in action in France.
His death coincided with the Battle of St. Quentin when his Battalion was in position on Henin Hill near St. Leger and was subjected to violent enemy attacks all day.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Bay 4 of the Arras Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
