Name
Arthur Leonard Victor Abbott
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/07/1916
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/9221
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 5 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 29 Jul 1887 in Brockley, Kent son of John Octavius and Mary Jane Abbott later of The Priory, Burbage Road, Herne Hill, London.
Educated at Royal Masonic School 1895-1902. He married Millicent Abbott in 1914 and they lived in "St. Margarets," Oxenden Square, Herne Bay, Kent with one child. He was a stockbroker’s jobber.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in London in the Army Pay Corps on 6 Oct 1914 and transferred to The Buffs on 26 Jan 1916.
He was reported missing on the third day of the Battle of the Somme last being seen near the enemy’s barbed wire.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Reginald Frederick William Abbott who was killed in action on 16 Jun 1915 with the Honourable Artillery Company.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
