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Surname: WALTON
Forename(s): Arthur
Place of Birth: Lothersdale, Yorkshire
Service No: 267711
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 2/5th Battalion
Division: 62nd (2/West Riding) Division
Age: 38
Date of Death: 1917-11-27
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 6 and 7.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: EARBY, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Arthur Walton (born 10 February 1879) was the son of Smith and Ellen Walton, née Wilkinson. Smith was born at Lothersdale and Ellen at Kelbrook, Yorkshire.
1881 Lothersdale, Yorkshire Census: Rose-in-the-Dale - Arthur Walton, aged 2, born Lothersdale, son of Smith and Ellen Walton.
1891 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 43, Pear Street - Arthur Walton, aged 12 years, born Lothersdale, Yorkshire, son of Smith and Ellen Walton.
Arthur was married to Martha Ellen Bradshaw in 1900.
1901 Earby, Yorkshire Census: 4, Green End Road - Arthur Walton, aged 22 years, born Lothersdale, Yorkshire, husband of Martha E. Walton.
1911 Earby, Yorkshire Census: 32, Aspen Lane - Arthur Walton, aged 32 years, born Lothersdale, Yorkshire, husband of Martha Ellen Walton.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Arthur Walton, 267711, West Riding Regiment.
Arthur was killed in action during the Battle of Cambrai, 1917, 20 November-3 December, 1917 at the Capture of Bourlon Wood, 23-28 November.
See also:
‘Earby in the First World War’ by Stephanie Carter, published by Earby & District Local History Society (2014).
‘Our Finest Crop’ by Steven Marshall, published by Earby & District Local History Society (2020).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
WALTON, Arthur, aged 38, West Riding Regiment, Gladstone Terrace, [Earby], reported missing Nov. 27, 1917, now presumed dead.
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Private Arthur WALTON
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 62nd (2/West Riding) Division
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11 January 1918
EARBY – Missing
A letter received by Mrs. A. Walton, 20, Gladstone Terrace, Earby, from an officer in France, states that her husband, Pte. Arthur Walton, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, has been reported missing since November 27th.
26 April 1918
Private A. Walton, Earby
Private Arthur Walton, West Riding Regiment, who had been reported missing since November 27th last year, is now officially presumed to have been killed on that date or since. He was 38 years of age and leaves a wife and two children living at 20 Gladstone Terrace, Earby. Enquiries through the medium of the Red Cross Society have elicited the following particular from a Keighley comrade:– “I, along with others, was in a building in Bouillon [Bourlon] village which we had just taken. Walton was sitting in the window of an upper storey when he was shot through the head by a sniper. Directly after we had to evacuate the village, only holding it two hours, and Walton was left behind for dead. He was in the same Company as me and I knew him well.”
Private Walton was formerly employed as head cloth-looker at Messrs. B. and W. Hartley’s Brook Shed and was a highly respected member of the Earby Baptist choir. He went out to France at Christmas 1916.
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26 April 1918
WALTON – Reported missing since Nov. 27th, 1917, now presumed killed, Pte. Arthur Walton, West Riding Regiment, husband of Mrs. Walton, of Gladstone Terrace, Earby, aged 38.
26 April 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Earby Soldier Presumed Killed
Pte. Arthur Walton, West Riding Regiment, who has been missing since November 27th last year, is now officially presumed to have been killed on that date or since. He was 38 years of age, and leaves a wife and two children living at 20, Gladstone Terrace, Earby. Enquiries through the medium of the Red Cross Society have elicited the following particulars from a Keighley comrade:– “I along with others was in a building in Bouillon village, which had just taken. Walton was sitting in the window of an upper storey, when he was shot through the head by a sniper. Directly after we had to evacuate the village, only holding it two hours, and Walton was left behind for dead. He was in the same company as I was, and I knew him well.” Pte. Walton was formerly employed as head clothlooker at Messrs. B. and W. Hartley’s Brook Shed, and was a highly respected member of the Earby Baptist choir. He went out to France at Christmas, 1916.
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