Name
Arthur Haywood
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Arthur Haywood was born on 2nd May 1879 at Trowley Bottom, Abbots Langley. He was one of six children in the family of William and Sarah Haywood – both parents bringing children to the relationship. His older brother, Frank, also served in the Great War. In the 1891 and 1901 Census the family lived in Asylum Road, where William worked as a Gardener’s Labourer. By 1901 Arthur was working too, and worked as a Stationary Engine Stoker.
On 3rd June 1905 he married Edith Coster at Abbots Langley, and by the time of the 1911 Census the couple had two children and was living at 27 Pollard Road, Maybury, Woking, where Arthur worked as a Gardener Domestic.
He was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in January 1917 serving with the Queen’s Royal West Surrey’s, and may have joined up with them earlier in 1916. Arthur was reported wounded in the September 1917 Parish Magazine, but survived and continued to serve through to the end of the War.
Arthur’s Medal Roll Card indicated that at the end of the War his address was Tanner’s Hill, Abbots Langley, and that he had served with the 11th Battalion of the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Rifles.
Arthur Haywood survived the War, as did his brother Frank.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
