Tuesday 14 December 2010

144018 Spr Arthur Fearnsides, RE

144018 Sapper Arthur Fearnsides of the Postal Section, Royal Engineers, died at home on the 12th December 1916. He was born in Bradford and was still living there when he enlisted. He joined up at London.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that Arthur was 40 years old, the husband of S E Fearnsides of 27 Lytton Road, Girlington, Bradford. He is buried in Bradford's Scholemoor Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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