Military History

Arthur died of acute lobar pneumonia and heart failure at the 4th General Hospital, Denmark Hill, London on 5th October 1916 after being admitted with wounds to both of his legs on 15th September 1916.

On the 3rd of September 1916, in the taking of Falfemont Farm, which "had to be captured at any cost" Arthur sustained the wounds from which he later died. Two platoons of his company had already been mown down in No Man's Land when Captain Addenbrooke, gathering the remainder of his men together, led a rush across 350 yards of ground that was being continuously swept by murderous machine-gun fire. Only a few reached their objective, but the position was taken.

Arthur himself fell wounded close to the enemy's trench. In spite of severe wounds in both legs and a smashed ankle, he managed to crawl over the German's parapet and land a bomb squarely on a machine-gun which was causing trouble to the advancing Pals. For this gallantry he received a mention in Sir Douglas Haig's dispatch, published in The Times of the 4th of January, 1917.