Name
Arthur Henry George Milton
10 July 1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
G/82131
Royal Fusiliers *1
26th (County of London)(Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KEZELBERG MILITARY CEMETERY
I. A. 16.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Arthur Henry George Milton was born on 10 July 1899 at Bishops Stortford to Walter and Alice Edith Milton, and baptised on 10 September 1899 at St Michael’s, Bishop's Stortford.
On the 1911 Census he was living with his family at 21 King Street, Bishop's Stortford, when he was an 11 year old schoolboy and his father was working as a Malster’s Labourer.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and served with the 26th (Banker’s) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) which was raised in London in July 1915 from volunteers who were mainly bank clerks and accountants (N.B. it is not known when Arthur joined the battalion).
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £4 10s and pay owing of £9 0s 2d.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Bankers).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
