Arthur Bamford
A. BAMFORD.
49331, Private, Arthur Bamford, 9th Battalion, Cheshire
Regiment, former number, 1573.
Born in 1896 at Macclesfield, son of James and Elizabeth, (nee, Stubbs), Bamford, of, 7, Prospect Building, Exchange Street, Macclesfield. Arthur’s first job on leaving school was silk duffer.
Arthur attested, 27/01/1913, for the regular army, prior to this he was working as a dyer. Army medical records show Arthur to have been five feet two inches tall weighed 105lbs with a chest measurement of 32 inches. He was drafted to the Western Front, 30/08/1916, and it was on, 09/10/1917, that he suffered a contusion wound and was buried by a shell, this resulted in Arthur being shipped back to England, 15/10/1917, to Toxteth Park Military Hospital, Liverpool. He resumed front line duties, 01/04/1918. On the 9th April, the Battalion were set for action at Estaires and was in Brigade Reserve at Gibraltar Camp. Late on the 9th the 9th Battalion was sent to Nieppe. At 5.15 am on the 10th, under cover of a thick fog the enemy attacked with eleven divisions on the Corps front, at 10.15 am the 9th Battalion was transferred to the 25th Division and ordered to occupy a line north-east of Nieppe. This was successfully accomplished by about 2.p.m. Arthur’s service record states; ‘Reported missing 10 April 1918, death accepted for official purposes, date assumed on or since, Wednesday, 10 April 1918, Arthur was 21 years of age.
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal and Territorial Force War Medal.
Private, Arthur Bamford has no known resting place and he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, West Vlaanderen, Belgium.
C.W.G.C. Ref: Panel 61 to 63.
Also refer to
- Macclesfield Troops pre WWI
- Photos from Barnswood archive Macclesfield WW1
- ‘Big Hats, Shorts and Dyb Dyb Dyb’ – a history of Macclesfield and Congleton Scouts by Norman Gosling
