Name
Percy John Arnold
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/09/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
323699
London Regiment (City of London Rifles) *1
2nd/6th Bn. *1
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No known grave
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Redbourn memorials
Pre War
Born in 1893 in Redbourn, Herts son of John William and Jane Arnold and christened on 12 Nov 1893 in Redbourn. They were living in North Wharf Road, Paddington in 1901 and in 7 Kent’s Place, Paddington Green, London in 1911 where he was a newsagent’s assistant.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at London formerly 6917 Rifleman 6th London Rifles and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Soldier's Effects register shows War Gratuity of £3-0-0 given to his mother Jane, sole legatee.
*1 More correctly (City of London) Bn. London Regiment (Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox
