Life History

Other facts

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• Copy of birth certificate.
  Copy of 1st marriage certificate -  witnesses  Joseph Robert Henshaw+ Gladys Henshaw.
  Copy of 2nd marriage certificate - witnesses Charles Boyer and Lily DBoyer.  (Lily was Clara Ellen`s sister).
  
  Lost an eye in an accident during his youth* and was unfit for service in the infantry during WW1.
  Served in British Expeditionary Force during WW1.  (Sailed from Southampton on SS Nirvana Regn E8160 on 24 September 1917 arrived Le Havre 25 September.  HF&S Depot Army Service Corps 8 Camp 4 Section Base Depot. Left Le Havre and arrived Dieppe 29 September.  Field address 9th Field Bakery, ASC, S8 APO BEF France.) He wrote the bracketed remarks on the flyleaf of a pocket Bible given to him by Annie his then fiancee.
  The dedication was `With love from Annie to Arthur Sept 20th 1917`.
  
  *  The following from George Martin 28.1.02 .....
  `I noted that your dad was blind in one eye, and I remembered that some years ago I wrote some notes after talking to my mother. She told me then that when  my grandfather Ernest (Arthur`s brother)  was a boy, he shot his brother in the eye with an arrow when they were playingred Indians. And blinded him which fits in well.`
  
  Information from Sunset Militaria 26.2.99.  Rank Private.  Regimentalnumber S/360549 Trade -  new army supply trades (bakers/butchers/clerks).  Medal roll British War Medal  Victory Medal.
  Extract from  letter MOD 8.11.99 ....`In reply to your enquiry we regret that no records can be traced relating to the military service of the above mentioned in the British Army during the 1914-18 war. Unfortunately as was mentioned in our original letter  a large proportion ofthe records of soldiers who survived during the period 1914-20 were destroyed by enemy air action in 1940 and it would seem that those of the above named were among them`
  
  Extract from `The Royal Army Service Corps`  (author Graeme Crew) page 136.
  Bakeries were established at Boulogne, Le Havre, Rouen, Dieppe, Calais, Marseilles and Etaples. By May 1915 the old Aldershot oven had given way to the new Perkins ovens, while due to manpower shortage, machinery was introduced for mixing, dividing, scaling and moulding and theemployment of Q.M.A.A.C. women as bakers.
  
  Reply from e-mail Roger Capewell rogermilitarybadges.org.uk - ` I think that the chevron (aka "stripe") is an "Overseas Service Chevron" which were worn point up on the lower right sleeve of British officers and soldiers tunics. Overseas Service Chevrons were introduced in 1917but were retrospectively awarded for each full years service abroad (leave of one month accepted) from August 1914.`  There is a studio photo of Arthur showing this insignia.
  
  Interred Ilkeston Park Cemetery 4 October 1940 grave no 4995.  Extract from grave register in folder.
  Copy of death certificate.  Occupation at death `hooper at cast ironworks`.   Arthur  was employed by Stanton Ironworks Co Ltd - his job was manually  fitting iron hoops to the spigot end of spun iron pipes.