Name
Arthur Hackforth-Jones
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/08/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
1366
Gloucestershire Regiment
Attached 7th Bn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Arkley Village Memorial
Pre War
Son of Frank W. Hackforth-Jones, J.P., and Clara Hackforth-Jones, of Arkley House, Barnet, Herts.
Census: 1901 Census living at Arkley Lawn, Arkley with parents and 1911 Census living at Redgate London Road, Uppingham, Rutland. Boarding at school.
Wartime Service
Initially enlisted 1st Honourable Artillery Company as Private 1366. Gazetted, 29 Oct 1915 to Second Leiutenant on probation the 1917 Gazetted Temp Lieutenant.
Mentioned in Despatches 14 Dec 1917,
Killed in action.
Additional Information
Also, Chipping Barnet Memorial
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams
Jonty Wild
