13218 Private William Robert Middleditch of the 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, was killed in action on this day, 9th August, in 1917. Thirty eight other Suffolk Regiment officers and men also died on the same day.
Soldiers Died in The Great War records that William was born in Moulton, Suffolk and enlisted at Newmarket. It gives his battalion as the 7th Suffolk Regiment, as does the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. However, his medal index card at the National Archives states the 9th Battalion which implies that he was posted from the 9th to the 7th some time after arriving in France. He originally arrived overseas on 31st August 1915.
William has no known grave and is commemorated on Bay 4 of the Arras Memorial in France.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in the Great War
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