BORN COTTINGHAM 1899. SON OF GEORGE ARKSEY & JANE ANN LEADMAN, OF COTTINGHAM AND DUSWELL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED AS PRIVATE, 106961, SHERWOOD FORESTERS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 2/6TH NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/04/1918, AGED 18. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, JANE LEADMAN.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL. HIS NAME IS ALSO LISTED ON THE COTTINGHAM AND DUNSWELL VILLAGE WAR MEMORIALS.
First name:
ARTHUR WILLIAM
Military Number:
42871
Rank:
Private
Date Died
15/04/1918
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
18
, COTTINGHAM, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
