152633 Gnr Arthur James Arnold, Royal Garrison Artillery

152633 Gunner Arthur James Arnold of the 393rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, died of wounds in England on the 23rd November 1918, one of 91 men to die on this date. He was 21 years old, the son of Mrs Eliza Frances Topp of Barford St. Martin in Salisbury.

Arthur had been born in Parkstone, Dorset but enlisted at Devizes in Wiltshire. He is buried in the cemetery of the pretty St John The Baptist church at Burcombe in Wiltshire. Click here for views of the cemetery. The War Graves Photographic Project has a photograph of his grave.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
The War Graves Photographic Project