Name
Arthur Teagle
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/09/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
89270
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VILLERS HILL BRITISH CEMETERY, VILLERS-GUISLAIN
II. C. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
Pilot me on
UK & Other Memorials
Northchurch Village Memorial, St Mary’s Church Window, Northchurch, We are not aware of any Dudswell Green memorial
Pre War
Arthur was the son of Harry Teagle and Fanny (nee Andrews )of Brook End, Pitstone, Leighton Buzzard. He was born at Haversham, Bucks. and and was living in Wood Green, when he enlisted in Mill Hill.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted 4 May 1916 as Private 52905 28th Middlesex Regt and was posted 5 Jul 1916. During training at Aldershot he was promoted to L/Cpl in Feb 1917 but in Oct 1917 he lost the stripe having been absent from duty.
On 1 Dec 17 he was posted to 1st battalion Middlesex in France. On 24 Mar 1918 he was wounded by a gas shell and evacuated through 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station and 55 General Hospital to England on 30 Mar 1918 and finally to Brook Hosp Woolwich until 6 Jun 1918 with a bout of Measles while there.
Arthur was posted to 5 battalion 11 Jun 1918, Base depot 29 Jun 1918 and 1st Bn. 30 Jun 1918 with the BEF. He was Killed in action at Flers-Courcellette in the Somme battles of 1918. At some time he received another serial number of 89270.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs. F. Brook End, Pitstone, Leighton Buzzard, Bed. ordered his headstone inscription: "Pilot me on". War gratuity of £9 and arrears of £3 8s 3d paid to Father Harry. Arthur’s brother, Thomas, serving with 2nd Wiltshire Regt, also died in 1918 and is listed on the memorials.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, www.dacorumheritage.org.uk/first-world-war-database
