Basic Details
Surname
Neale
Forenames
Arthur William
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
The Roll lists his address as 89 Cromwell Road. It omits any rank, and misrecords that he died serving in the 2/9th Battalion.

(CWGC records that Private Arthur Neale, regimental number G/40981, died on 31/7/1917 serving in the 4th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, and is commemorated on Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Arthur enlisted in King's Lynn and was killed in action serving in the 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, having formerly served in the Essex Regiment under regimental number 30763. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his widow Olive Catton was his legatee. [Arthur's widow Olive Neale married Arthur Catton in King's Lynn in 1919]. Arthur Neale's marriage to Olive Ebbens had been registered in King's Lynn in 1908. On the 1911 census they were living with their two children at 2 Whitefriars Cottages, Friar's Street, King's Lynn; Arthur was aged 24, and stated he had been born in Burnham Market. Arthur's birth had been registered in 1886. On the 1891 census he had been living with his parents, Richard and Clara, at the Lord Nelson Inn at Burnham Sutton, of which his father was the publican. On the 1911 census Arthur's parents Richard and Clara were living at 87 Cromwell Road, Peterborough).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Middlesex
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
2/9th
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Not Stated on Memorial
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1917
Month of death
July
Day of death
31
Manner of death as stated
"Died in hospital 31 July 1917 after being wounded in the Battle of the Dunes".
Manner of death reference
Died of Wounds
Personal Details
Address
89, CROMWELL ROAD
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial