Name
Arthur Reginald Hemley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/02/1920
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
531555
London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
15th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BUSHEY (ST. JAMES) CHURCHYARD
II, S.W. of Church.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St James’ Church Memorial, Bushey
Pre War
Arthur Reginald Hemley was the son of George and Elizabeth Hemley. His father was a member of a well-established Bushey family.
In 1911 Arthur lived with his parents at 10 Hagden Lane in Watford. George Hemley was a journeyman carpenter and Arthur was one of his eleven children, two of whom died in childhood. Before the war Arthur was employed as a clerk. By 1915 he and his parents had moved to 12 Rudolph Road in Bushey.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted at Somerset House as a Private 531555 in the London Regiment in 1915 and served in France throughout the war.
As a child he had suffered from chest problems and towards the end of the war developed a serious condition ‘as a result of war service’. In 1918 he was discharged to a sanatorium with tubercular disease, ‘aggravated by exposure’. He died on 27 February 1920, aged 22. He was buried in Bushey churchyard.
Additional Information
‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
