Arthur HILTON

Main CPGW Record

Surname: HILTON

Forename(s): Arthur

Place of Birth: Derby, Derbyshire

Service No: ---

Rank: T/2nd Lieutenant

Regiment / Corps / Service: York and Lancaster Regiment

Battalion / Unit: 1/5th Battalion

Division: 49th (West Riding) Division

Age: 25

Date of Death: 1917-10-09

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Addenda Panel 163.

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: INGLETON, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

Arthur Hilton was the son of Arthur Job and Adelaide Hilton, née Harston. Arthur, senior, was born at Derby, Derbyshire and Adelaide at New Lenton, Nottinghamshire.

1901 Chesterfield, Derbyshire Census: 7, Hardwick Street - Arthur Hilton, aged 9 years, born Derby, Derbyshire, son of Arthur and Adelaide Hilton.

1911 Chesterfield, Derbyshire Census: 34, Catherine Street - Arthur Hilton, aged 19 years, born Derby, Derbyshire, son of Arthur and Adelaide Hilton.

Arthur was married to Mabel Maud Deakin in 1917. Mabel married William Henry Crookes in 1920.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Arthur Hilton, Cpl 29781, York. R.; 31982, Notts & Derby. R.; 2/Lt York & Lanc. R. Commissioned: 6.6.17. Theatre of War first served in: France. Date of entry therein: 5 .1.16. Deceased 9.10.17. (K. in A.). Correspondence: (Widow) Mrs A. Hilton [name struck through] Crooks, (Re-married). Pitsmoor Road, Sheffield.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: 2 Lieut A. Hilton, York. & Lanc. R. K. in A. 9.10.17.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: 2 Lt A. Hilton, York. & Lancs. Date and Place of Death: 9.10.17. K. in A. To whom issued/Amount: Widow - Mrs Mabel Maude Hilton. £72 17s. 3d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: 2/Lieut A. Hilton, York. & Lanc. Regt. [Comment on card:] Re marriage of widow 3.4.20. [No other details given on card.]

Arthur was killed in action during the Battles of Ypres, 1917, 31 July-10 November, at the Battle of Poelcappelle, 9 October.

The 1921 Census shows that Arthur's widow Mabel (born Sheffield, Yorkshire), husband William and their and their son Kenneth Hugh, were lodging with her sister [Amy] Beatrice Atkin (herself a war widow) at 19, Pitsmoor Road, Sheffield. The 1939 Register shows that Mabel, husband William and two others were living at 112, Thorpe House Rise, Sheffield. Mabel and William's son, Sgt Vincent Crookes, 1677821, R.A.F. (V.R.), 619 Sqdn., died 18 October 1943, age 19. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey. Mabel died in 1958.

In 2019 the CWGC commemoration for Arthur was transferred from Arras Memorial to Tyne Cot Memorial – Addenda Panel. His name will be removed from the Arras Memorial when the appropriate panel is next replaced.

Photograph: ‘Derbyshire Courier’ (3 November 1917).

A short biography of Arthur is included in: ‘The Ingleton War Memorial, 1914-18, 1939-45’ by Andrew Brooks (2005).

Data Source: Local War Memorial

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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