BORN HULL 1888. SON OF GEORGE (1851- )& MARY RICHARDSON (1853-1928), OF 10, MARY ANN TERRACE, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL. SON OF A BRICKLAYER. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND SIX BROTHERS ON ACTIVE SERVICE (THREE WERE LOST IN THE WAR).
ARTHUR WAS A FORMER SOLDIER AND RESERVIST. HE WORKED AS A BRICKLAYER IN CIVILIAN LIFE. MARRIED AND LIVING AT 11, KATES TERRACE, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HE REJOINED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 11TH SEPTEMBER 1914. SERVED AS A GUNNER WITH THE 24TH ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. PROMOTED TO BOMBARDIER WITH 104TH RFA. HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE SINCE 1914. HE WAS WOUNDED THREE TIMES, THE LAST TIME ON THE 3RD MAY 1917 WHEN HE WAS HIT ON THE NECK BY SHRAPNEL. HIS LAST LETTER HOME TO HIS WIFE WAS DATED THREE DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH AND WAS CHEERFUL. HE MENTIONED GETTING HOME LEAVE BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR THREE YEARS. HIS MAJOR WROTE: “HE WAS A GOOD, HARD WORKER, NEVER SHIRKING HIS DUTY, WHICH HE DID WITH GOOD HEART.” HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION ON 6TH JULY 1917, AGED 30.
HE LEFT A WIDOW, FRANCES ELLEN AT 11, KATES TERRACE, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL
HIS NAME IS INSCRIBED ON THE ST MARYS CHURCH WAR MEMORIAL, SCULCOATES LANE, WITH HIS ELDER BROTHERS, GEORGE AND ELIJAH ROCHARDSON.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 15TH AUGUST 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
