BORN HULL 1889. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF FRED & MARY HUNT ABOVE. WIDOW F E HUNT LIVED AT 65 GRANGE STREET.HE WENT FROM NEWCASTLE TO FRANCE WITH COLONEL SHAW AND WAS WOUNDED IN THE HEAD AND RIGHT LEG, AT YPRES, ON 5TH MAY 1915. HIS THREE FRIENDS BEING KILLED NEARBY BY A SHELL (CPL DAVIDSON, PTE WHITEHEAD, AND PTE, THOMAS) ARTHUR HUNT WAS SENT TO DEVONPORT HOSPITAL AND GIVEN SEVEN DAYS HOME LEAVE. HAVING SURVIVED THIS MARVELOUS ESCAPE, HE WAS EVENTUALLY KILLED IN 1918. HE IS PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 19TH MAY 1915 AND 14TH MAY 1918. *
First name:
ARTHUR HAROLD
Regiment:
Military Number:
200277
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
23/03/1918
Place died:
Hancourt British Cemetery, Somme, France
Age:
29
