Private Alex Arthur

Army Number: 76107 (formerly 969 Royal Engineers)

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Joseph and Isabella Arthur of 116, Chapel Street, Aberdeen, Scotland. He enlisted at Aberdeen on 11th February 1915 into the 2nd Highland Field Company Royal Engineers. He went to France and transferred to the Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 11th January 1917. He was posted to the 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 2nd February 1917 and received a shell wound to his jaw on 20th September 1917 being treated at No. 11. Casualty Clearing Station, Godewaersvelde, Belgium. On the 17th November 1917, he suffered gas poisoning and was treated at No. 30 General Hospital. He was sent to England on Hospital Ship “Stad Antwerpen”. He returned to France and was posted to the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 19th March 1918. He was killed in action, 19th September 1918, during the attack on the Quadrilateral, near Holnon, France.

Buried Savy British Cemetery, France. Plot 1, Row N, Grave 23.