Name
Arthur William Sage
1 Nov 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
737
King Edward’s Horse
“B” Squadron, 1st Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 1 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Leavesden Green Village Memorial, Not on the Abbots Langley memorials, Not on the Bedmond memorials
Biography
Arthur William Sage was born at Bedmond in the autumn of 1893. He was the third son of 14 children born to George Sage, a farm labourer, and Emma (nee Brinklow). At the time of the 1901 Census the family lived at Woodside, Leavesden and there were 6 Brothers and 2 daughters. On the 1911 Census there were 12 children in the Family now with Arthur the eldest and a horseman on a farm, his brothers Albert and Leonard having left home on marriage were living in Bedmond.
In 1914 Arthur was living at 1 High Elms, from where he left to enlist at Watford with the 1st Battalion of the King Edward’s Horse in October 1914 as Private 737. A Memorial Stone has been built into the wall of this property noting that Arthur lived at the house and it gives details of his service during the Great War. Arthur went to France on 22 Apr 1915 with B Squadron to join 48 South Midland Division. King Edwards Horse were later transferred to IV Corps and were of the actions of the German Retreat to the Hindenberg Line in early 1917. Arthur was killed in action on 22nd March 1917, and he was commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme battlefield. His brother Albert, serving with 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, died on 9th March, thirteen days before Arthur from his wounds which had been received during the Battle of Boom Ravine, also on the Somme, on 17th February 1917. His other brother, Leonard Sage survived the War.
Arthur was associated with Abbots Langley through his birth at Bedmond, although he did not appear in the Parish records and was not commemorated on the Abbots Langley War Memorial or the Bedmond Memorial. He was however commemorated on the Leavesden Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org, Jonty Wild
