Arthur FIELDING

Main CPGW Record

Surname: FIELDING

Forename(s): Arthur

Place of Birth: Great Harwood, Lancashire

Service No: 2584

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Battalion / Unit: 1st Battalion

Division: 1st Division

Age: 20

Date of Death: 1914-10-31

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 41 and 43.

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: BARNOLDSWICK, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

Arthur Fielding (born 2 December 1891) was the son of John William and Mary Jane Fielding, née Leach. John was born at Ashton-under-Lyne and Mary at Preston, Lancashire.

1901 Great Harwood, Lancashire Census: 74, Park Road - Arthur Fielding, aged 9 years, born Great Harwood, son of John W. Fielding (married).

Arthur was married to Mary Duckworth in 1911. Mary married Thurston Mayor in 1916. In 1949 she married Robert Shackleton.

The British Army Service Record for Arthur Fielding exists but may be incomplete.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Arthur Fielding, 2584, L. N. Lancs. Campaign: B.E.F. 1914. Disembarkation Date: 20.9.14.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Arthur Fielding, 2584, 1 L.N.L. Pres dead 31.10.14.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Arthur Fielding, 2584, 1st Bn Loyal N. Lancs. Regt. Date and Place of Death: 31.10.14. Presumed. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Mary. Self and Child. £4 7s. 5d. War Gratuity: Widow - Mary Mayor. £3 0s. 0d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Arthur. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Mary, born 9.4.93. Remarks: Woman remarried 7.6.16 to Thurston Mayor, miner. Children: Ernest, born 17.5.14.

The 1921 Census shows that Mary, husband Thurston and their daughter, Gladys were living at 103, Blackburn Road, Great Harwood. Mary’s son, Ernest, was living with his grandparents, Albert and Sarah Ann Duckworth, at 85, Blackburn Road, Great Harwood. The 1939 Register shows that Mary, a widow, son Thurston and her mother Sarah A. Duckworth, were living at 11, Greaves Street, Great Harwood. Mary died in 1974. The 1939 Register shows that Ernest, his wife Selina and their son Albert were living at 22, Tarbet Street, Lancaster. (Ernest married Selina Hodgson, later Whitehead, in 1936).

C.W.G.C.: L/Cpl Ernest Fielding, 3710864, Corps of Military Police, died in Italy, 28 July 1945 and is buried at Arezzo War Cemetery.

Arthur is commemorated on the Great Harwood War Memorial.

A short biography of Arthur is included in: ‘Barnoldswick – A small Town’s part in conflicts 1800 to 2014’ by Peter Ian Thompson (2014).

Data Source: Local War Memorial

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:

BARNOLDSWICK

FIELDING, Arthur, L.N.L. Regt., reported missing for nearly six months and later reported killed in action on Oct. 31, 1914; was 23 years of age and left a wife and one child.

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