Name
Arthur Squires
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
G/22996
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAGNICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
I. D. 17
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Holwell memorial
Pre War
Born Holwell, enlisted Edmonton, Middlesex
Wartime Service
Served France & Flanders. Killed in Action.
The Hertfordshire Express reported on the 2nd of November 1918:
"Regret is occasioned at the death in action on October 13, in France, of Pte.(*1) Arthur Squires, Middlesex Regiment, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Squires, of Holwell. Pte. Squires leaves a widow and five children, who live at Edmonton. He was apprenticed with Mrs. Burrows, upholsterer, Hitchin, and afterwards went to Waltham Cross. Going to Edmonton later, he joined up at that place in 1914. He had been in France over two years, and had been slightly wounded in the arm. In October last year, a lieutenant wrote that he had been killed, but this proved to be incorrect. Mr. and Mrs. Squires' youngest son is a prisoner in Germany, and their second son is now in France."
Additional Information
*1 (Arthur is listed on the site as a Lance Corporal but the newspaper article refers to him as a Private)
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Tony James
