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The Roll lists his address as 30 Glebe Road.
(Arthur James Wares' birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1884. His baptism on 26/10/1884 as the son of Elizabeth and James Robinson Wares of Albert Place was recorded in the Baptism register of St John's Church in Peterborough. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents at 46 Albert Place, Peterborough. On the 1901 census the family lived in Alderman's Drive. On the 1911 census Arthur was living with his parents at 153 Alderman's Drive in Peterborough.
Arthur's Army service file records that he was born on 9/9/1884. He was aged 31, living at 30 Glebe Road in Fletton and working as a solicitor's clerk (book keeper), when he was attested on 11/12/1915 and posted to Army Reserve; his regimental number was 5/307191. The file recorded his next of kin as Muriel Jane nee Allen, who he had married at St John's Church in Peterborough on 28/11/1914.
Arthur was mobilized on 5/3/1917 and joined the Army Service Corps as a Private the following day. He served in Egypt from 20/4/1917, and was appointed Acting Lance Corporal on 28/11/1918; he was in the Corps of Guides and Interpreters. He remained in Egypt until 28/1/1919, at which time he returned to the UK. On 18/3/1919 he was transferred to Army Reserve. His Army file records that he was awarded a pension from 14/2/1920 in respect of cirrhosis of the liver, which was accepted as having been aggravated by his military service. The pension continued until his death.
Arthur's death certificate records that he died at 30 Glebe Road, Fletton on 24/3/1920 of Dysentery and cirrhosis of the liver; his occupation was given as Solicitor's Clerk (ex Army); his widow registered the death. Cemetery records indicate that he was buried on 27/3/1920 at Fletton Cemetery in Section 1, Grave 905.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission currently has no record of Arthur. As he died from cirrhosis of the liver that the Army had decreed was aggravated by his War service, documents have now been passed to the Commission asking the to consider whether he may be accepted onto their registers as a First World War casualty).