Basic Details
Surname
Hospital
Forenames
Arthur
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
20806
Notes
The Roll lists his address as Wood Street.

(CWGC records that Private A Hospital, regimental number 20806, died on 1/7/1916 serving in the 6th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave VIII.E.1 at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery at Mametz in France, having been reinterred after the War. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his sister Annie E Blades was his legatee. When his death was announced on 22/7/1916 in the Peterborough Advertiser he was reported to have been the adopted son of Mrs Rose of Woodland Terrace, Wood Street, Peterborough, and to have formerly worked as the boots at an Hotel in Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was recorded as a native of Elton, aged 20, working as the under-boots at the Grand Hotel in Peterborough; on the 1901 census he was living with George & Hannah Rose in Lincoln Road, Peterborough; on the 1891 census he had been 2 months old, living with his parents Stephen and Mary Hospital in Elton).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Northants Regt
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
6th
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
France
Town of death
Not stated
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1916
Month of death
July
Day of death
1
Manner of death as stated
Killed in action on the Somme
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action
Personal Details
Address
WOOD STREET
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial