Private Arthur James Hoodless

Army Number: 41739

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at South Reston, Lincolnshire. Son of Barnabas Hoodless, of South Reston. He was a horseman prior to enlisting on 31st March 1914 at Lincoln. He went to France on 16th July 1916 and died, on 4th August 1917, aged 27, from meningitis and tuberculosis at No. 2 General Hospital, Le Havre, France.

Buried: Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France. Div. 62. Plot 1. Row G. Grave 5.

Private Arthur James Hoodless is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Edith’s Churchyard War Memorial, South Reston, Lincolnshire.

His brother Private William Hoodless, 20th (Labour) Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.