BORN HULL 1881. SON OF JAMES RICHARDSON & ELIZA WILLFORD, OF 421 ANLABY ROAD & 102 WESTBOURNE AVENUE, HULL. 1918 ABSENT VOTERS. ACCOUNTANTS CLERK. HE ENLISTED HULL. EX PRIVATE, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE 10TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/10/1916, AGED 35. HE IS BURIED AT GUARDS’ CEMETERY, LESBOEUFS, SOMME FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “HE DIED IN WAR THAT WE IN PEACE MAY LIVE”.
HE LEFT £160 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER WAS A RETIRED PUBLICAN.
First name:
ARTHUR CHESTER
Military Number:
43160
Rank:
Private
Date Died
31/10/1916
Place died:
Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France
Age:
35
102 , WESTBOURNE AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
