Name
Arthur William Harradine
1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
144878
Royal Engineers
253rd Tunnelling Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
F. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hinxworth Memorial
Pre War
Arthur William Harradine was born in 1880 in Hinxworth, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Harradine, and was baptised there on 27 September 1885. He was one of ten children.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at Bury End, Hinxworth father and his father's occupation was given as fossil digger but on the previous census he was an agricultural labourer. They remained in Hinxworth in 1891 but had moved to the High Street,
Arthur had moved to Aylestone, Leicester by 1901 and was listed on the census at 11 Denmark Road, Aylestone living with his sister and brother in law, Shirley and William Jinks, as a boarder and working as a gas labourer.
His mother died in 1907 and on the 1911 Census he was living with sister and brother in law Emily and William Sells at The Baulk, Biggleswade, Beds and working as a telegraph wireman for the GPO.
On enlistment he was living at 23 Charteris Road, Finsbury Park and gave his occupation as a Miner. His father having died in 1915, he gave his next of kin as his sister Shirley Jinks of 79 Knightsfield Road, Leicester.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted on 15 November 1915 in London and served with the Royal Engineers as a sapper/tunnellers mate with the 253rd Tunnelling Company.
He arrived in France on 6 December 1915 and was promoted to Corporal on 29 September 1916 followed by Sergeant on 12 November 1917.
He was killed in action on 15 September 1918 by gas and is now buried in Hancourt British Cemetery, France, having been originally interred in Estrees Communal Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His sister Shirley Jinks received a war gratuity of £16 10s. His pay owing of £36 1s 5d was divided between his sisters Shirley Jinks and Minnie Clark and brothers Julius, Charles, Alfred, Herbert and Harry.
No pension records have been found. Although a service record has been found, it is very faint in places and difficult to read.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Dunne
