Name
Arthur Thomas Payne
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/11/1917
42
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27753
Suffolk Regiment
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christ Church, Little Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Born in Clophill, Bedfordshire in 1875. Son of Mrs. C. Upton, of 41, High St., Selsoe, Ampthill, Beds; husband of Ellen Selina Payne, of 11, Hawkshead Lane, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Middx. In the 1911 census he was a nurseryman living with his wife Ellen Selina and their daughter Emily (1906) and son Arthur (1909) in Thornton Road, Little Heath.
Wartime Service
Originally enlisted at Mill Hill in the Middlesex Regiment and given service number G/21452 which suggests this was about January 1916. Killed in action 22 November 1917 at Graincourt during the Battle of Cambrai.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
