Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

The attack on Butte de Warlincourt by Arthur's battalion and two other London Regiment battalions - 1/7th (City of London) and 1st/15th Battalion, London Regiment - was a complete failure. The 47th (London) Division history tells us that they ‘met the full force of the enemy artillery and machine gun fire, cleverly sited in depth, so as to bring a withering cross fire to bear along the western slopes leading up to the Butte and the high ground to the south of it. From across the valley the enemy had magnificent observation of the ground leading to our objective and made full use of it…not a man turned back, and some got right up under the Butte, but they were not seen again.”

The attack had started at 13:45 with the creeping barrage moving forward too fast and the War Diary says that the battalion was ”badly cut up”. Casualties, which included Arthur, numbered 354.

Arthur’s body was never identified and he is commemorated at Coughton, Sambourne and on the Thiepval Memorial.