Name
Arthur Warwick
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/09/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23710
Grenadier Guards
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Addenda Panel
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials
Pre War
Born in February 1897 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire the son of Charles, a horse keeper, and Eliza Ann Warwick and was living in Harlow Tye in 1901 and in Stanstead Lodge Cottages, Ware in 1911.
Arthur enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
He was killed in action on the Somme between the 14th and 17th September 1916, but perhaps most likely on the 15th. The Battalion War Diary states that the unit attacked near Ginchy at 0620 on the 15 September, with many casualties taken on the right flank. The 16 September was a general holding action, but with severe German shelling. The Battalion then withdrew to the rear on the night of the 16-17 September.
Arthur Warwick has no known grave and is commemoratyed on Thiepval Memorial. He was aged 19.
Additional Information
*1 The FRANCE (1914-1918) MEMORIAL commemorates Commonwealth casualties who died in France during the First World War but for whom no graves could be found. Please note: The men and women remembered here are presently commemorated solely by their database record and register entry. The register is maintained at the Commission's Head Office, Maidenhead, until such time as a permanent memorial is built. (Viewing by appointment only).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
