9288 Pte William Arthur Gardiner, 2nd Bn, Leics Regt

9288 Private William Arthur Gardiner of the 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, died of wounds on the 20th November 1914. William was a Londoner who had been born in Walworth and was living in Peckham when he enlisted. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission tells us that he was 20 years old, the son of William A and Elizabeth Gardiner of 2 Downe's Place, Peckham, London. His army number tells me that he joined the Leicestershire Regiment around early August 1911.

Arthur arrived in France on the 12th October 1914. He is buried in Le Touret Military Cemetery.

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