Private Arthur James Duke

Army Number : 306258 formerly 3999

Battalion : Depot Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Newark. Son of George William And Mary Duke, of 1, Smiths Row, Water Lane, Newark. He was a laborere prior to enlisting 25th May at newark. He went to France 11th July 1916 and wads admitted to 7 Stationary hospital boulogne suffering from chill blains, gout, trench feet and tuberculosis. he was transferred to England 7th march 198 and was discharged no longer fit for militarily service 13th may 1918 and died 14th December 1918, aged 22. from tuberculosis.

Buried: Newark-Upon-Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. G. C. “C.” 22.

He is also commemorated on Newark cemmetrey wr Memorial, and St Leonard’s Church War Memorial, Newark.