Name
Arthur Robert Poney
2nd June 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/03/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
12392
Coldstream Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE
II. A. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, Broxbourne C of E Primary School Memorial, Not on the Croxley Green memorials, Celtic Cross St Mary Magdalen Church, Harlow Essex, Latton Village Essex Memorial, Potter Street Village Memorial Essex
Pre War
Arthur Robert PONEY was born in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire on 2nd June 1893, son of George Poney a Police Constable and Emily Edith Popney (nee Hunt). One of their six children. His parents were married on 10th January 1886, at St Leonards Church, Streatham, London.
He was Christened on 1st July 1893, in the Parsh of Croxley Green, Herts.
His mother Emily died in 1899, aged 36, the death was registered in Ware, Herts.
1901 Census records Arthur aged 8, living with his widowed father George, four brothers and sister Emily (1) at 30 High Road, Broxbourne, Herts. The family had a live-in Housekeeper widow Emma Ramsey and her two children.
1911 Census, Arthur (17), was working as a Bakers Assistant with his two brothers Frank (22) and Horace(19), both Bakers, at Potter Street Bakery. The three brothers were living together in Potter Street, Harlow, Essex. His widower father, brother George (15) and sister Emily (12) were living at The Cemetery Lodge, Ware Road, Hoddesdon, Herts, his father had retired from the Police Force and was now employed as the Cemetery Superintendent. They had a live-in Housekeeper.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted at Stratford, London, on 14th September 1914, posted to the Coldstream Guards and issued with the service number 12392. On completion of his training, he was sent to France on 9th January 1915. See action on the Western Front. Arthur was Killed in Action just three months later on 4th March 1915. He is buried in Le-Touret Military Cemetery, Richebough-L’Avoue, France. Grave Ref; II. A. 10.
Additional Information
His effects went to his father George Poney, his Executor, £3-16s-06d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £3.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
