Name
Arthur Joseph Markwick
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/03/1915
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3817
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D'ARMENTIERES
VIII. A. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Cheshunt
Pre War
Arthur Joseph Markwick was born in Willesden, Middlesex in 1893, son of Joseph Markwick a, Printer Compositor and Floretta (Hodges) Markwick. One of six children.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 8, living with his parents, threes sisters and brother George (11) at, 21 College Road, Cheshunt, Herts. His mother Floretta died in 1909, aged 42.
1911 Census, Arthur (18), is working as a Grocers Assistant, living with his widowed father Joseph and four sisters, still at 21 College Road, Cheshunt.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted at Willesden, Middx, posted to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment), issued with the service number 3817. On completion of his training, Arthur and the 7th Battalion were stationed at Barnet, they were mobilized for war and travelled to Southampton on 12th March 1915, boarding the SS “Munich” and SS “Inventa” they sailed for Le Havre, France, arriving the following day the 13th. They came under the command of the 23rd Brigade of the 8th Division.
Arthur was Killed in Action just 16 days later on 28th March 1915, aged 23. He is buried in the CWGC Ration Farm Military Cemetery in France.
Additional Information
His father Joseph Markwick received a Dependents Pension of 5/- a week from 6th November 1918, and his effects of £2-6-17, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3.
His elder brother George Markwick served with the Yorkshire Regiment from 1915, until his discharge in 1919.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
