Name
Arthur Warrell
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266233
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
2nd/1st Bucks Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 96 to 98.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
Arthur L Worrell was born in 1892 in Aylesbury to Edward Worrell, and Mary Ann (nee Benning).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, William Gomm (born 1884), George (born 1888), Albert (born 1891), Arthur , Alfred (born 1895) and Esther (born 1897) were living in Cholesbury, Bucks.
On the 1911 Census the family of parents, William Gomm, Arthur, Kate (born 1902), Florence (born 1905) and Joseph (born 1907) were living at Buckland Wharf near Tring.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted as a Territorial Soldier in the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in Aylesbury as Private 3437.
Initially he was probably in the 1/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion having joined about Sep 1914. No Service Record was found for Arthur but he may have gone to France as a replacement in 2/1st Battalion (in 184 Brigade, 61st (South Midland) Division) following the losses suffered in the Battle of Fromelles ( 19-20 Aug 1916). In 1917 the division were involved in Operations on the Ancre and moving to the Ypres area in the Battles of Passchendaele (3rd Ypres) at Langemarck (16-18 Aug 1917). Arthur gained the service Number 266233 in the Territorial renumbering of 1917. Arthur was reported Missing in action and his death assumed to have been on 22 Aug 1917. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Ypres.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £10 10s and arrears of £5 2s 6d was paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
