Arthur Frederick Harper

A Guardsman with 1st Battalion, Arthur died on 19th of December 1916 at the age of 20. 

Arthur was born at Lowestoft in 1896, a son of Joseph and Sarah Eliza Harper. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 8 May 1896 and his family lived at Carlton Road. In 1901 his family lived at 6 Victoria Road, Carlton Colville. By 1911 they were living at 1 School Road, and Arthur was assisting his father as a jobbing gardener. 

Arthur volunteered and enlisted in the Army at Lowestoft. He joined the Grenadier Guards, service number 22981, and arrived in France on 27 October 1915 to join the 1st Battalion. Arthur was wounded in 1916, possibly at the Somme on 26 September, and his name appears in the War Office Daily List of 30 October 1916. One recovered he continued to serve with the 1st Battalion. 

On 19 December 1916 the 1st Battalion moved from Trones Wood to Bronfay. No details of what happened to Arthur are known, other than the fact that he was killed in action on 19 December.