Name
Arthur Joseph Berkeley Addison
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
49
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
York and Lancaster Regiment
9th Bn. (Commanding)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches twice
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT
I. W. 23.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 14 Sep 1866 in Cork, Ireland son of Gen. Thomas Addison, C.B., and Ellen (Gillespie) Addison, his wife. Educated at Haileybury College 1880-82. He married Mildred Jeanne de Gilibert of 18 Hans Road, Chelsea, London in Ireland in 1901 and had one child.
Wartime Service
Formerly of the Royal Irish Rifles he was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in a fierce attack on the German Nordwerk at Thiepval.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
