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The Roll lists his address as 6 Huntley Grove. It also recorded the death of his brother Charles.
(CWGC records that Private Arthur Wyman, regimental number 30906, died aged 26 on 27/9/1918 serving in 10th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry. He is buried in grave I.C.6 at Haynecourt British Cemetery in France. They record him as the son of Charles and Agnes Wyman of Peterborough.
Arthur's birth certificate records that he was born on 8/7/1892 at Padholme Road in Peterborough, as the son of Charles Thomas Wyman and Agnes Mary nee Southwell. On the 1901 census he was living with his widowed father at 1 Moulton Cottage Gladstone Street in Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was a barman at the Crown Hotel in Peterborough. He was listed on the ship's manifest of the "Tunisian" that left Liverpool on 24/4/1914 bound for Quebec.
Arthur's attestation form at the Library and Archives Canada records that he gave his sister Iris as his next of kin when he enlisted on 23/9/1914. (The form recorded his date of birth inaccurately as 5/7/1892). When his death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 26/10/1918 it was reported that he had enlisted at Calgary and had come to England with the 1st Canadian Contingent before proceeding in early 1915 to France, where he had served continuously until his death. He was reported to have been killed by a gas shell during the Battle of Canal du Nord and taking of Bourlon Wood. The report mentioned that in September/October 1918 the Daily Graphic had published a letter he had written regarding operations at the Drocourt-Queant Line).