Basic Details
Surname
Naylor
Forenames
Arthur
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
M/317225
Notes
The Roll lists his address as 9 Princes Gardens.

(CWGC records that Private Arthur Naylor, regimental number M/317225, died aged 38 on 12/10/1917 serving in the Motor Transport Reinforcements section of the Army Service Corps, and is now buried in grave 4.D.11 at Dar es Salaam War Cemetery in Tanzania, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as the husband of Fanny Elizabeth Naylor of 3 Albert Place, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of St Ives, Huntingdonshire who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted in Northampton. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at No 19 Stationary Hospital in Dar es Salaam, and that his widow Fanny was his legatee. On the 1911 census Arthur and his wife Fanny were staying with his brother Thomas at 27 Stanmore Street, Barnsbury, Islington. On the 1891 census Arthur had been living with his parents Henry and Alice Naylor in Moulton, Lincolnshire. His marriage to Fanny Elizabeth Bird was registered in the Spalding District in 1906).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Royal Army Service Corps
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
Not stated on memorial
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Pte
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
German East Africa
Town of death
Not stated
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1917
Month of death
October
Day of death
12
Manner of death as stated
"Died of dysentery"
Manner of death reference
Died of Disease
Personal Details
Address
9, PRINCES GARDENS
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial