Name
Arthur Luke Dagley
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/06/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19388
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA NEUVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY, CORBIE
A 57
France
Headstone Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BRAVE BOY HE DIED FOR OTHERS
UK & Other Memorials
South Mimms Village Memorial
Pre War
Arthur Luke DAGLEY was born in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, in 1891, son of Luke Dagley, a Carter working on the Dyrham Park Estate and Emma Dagley (nee Long). The eldest of their five children.
His parents were married at St Giles Church, South Mimms, Herts, on 20th April 1890.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 10, living with his parents and sisters Millicent (8), and Annie (4), their Uncle George Dagley, Cousin William Dagley, Aunt Sophia Long and Cousin James Long are living with the family at Farm Cottage, Dyrham Park, South Mimms, Herts. His mother Emma died in 1908, aged 37.
1911 Census records Arthur (20), as a Carman on the Estate, living with his widowed father, sisters Annie (14), Margaret (8) and brother Albert James (5), still at Farm Cottage, Dyrham Park, South Mimms, Herts.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted in the 9th Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI), at Halton Camp, Buckinghamshire. (The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry was raised in Pontefract, Yorkshire in September 1914, as part of Kitchener’s Third New Army moving to Halton Park in October 1914) they moved to Witley, Surrey, in August 1915, for final training, Arthur and the 9th Battalion, proceeded to France on 11th September 1915.
Arthur was wounded in action and taken to No. 21 Casualty Clearing Station, at La Neuville, France, where he died of his wounds on 6th June 1916. He is buried in La Neuville Communal Cemetery, Corbie, France. Grave Ref; A. 57.
Additional Information
His effects of £6-3s-8d, pay owing, £3, war gratuity went to his father Luke Dagley.
His Headstone inscription “IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BRAVE BOY HE DIED FOR OTHERS “was requested by his father Luke Dagley, of Dyrham Park Cottage, South Mimms, Barnet, Middx.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Brian Lodge
