Sergeant Arthur Edward Bathurst
| Date of Birth | c.1894 |
|---|---|
| Age at Death | 24 |
| Date of Death | 19 May 1919 |
| Service Number | 206202 |
| Military Service | East Surrey Regiment “A” Coy. 8th Bn |
| Merton Address | |
| Local Memorial | Christ Church, Colliers Wood |
Additional Information
Arthur Edward Bathhurst was born in Camberwell c.1894. He was the son of James Hannam Bathurst, a waiter, and Elizabeth Bathurst of 41 Coleman Road Camberwell, London. By 1911 he was still living in Camberwell and working as a law clerk in a solicitor’s office. He had two younger brothers, Cyril and Leonard.
On 6th October 1913 Arthur enlisted into the Territorial Force(Surrey QMR Yeomanry) in Clapham. He was 19 years and 7 months old.
Sergeant Bathurst was missing assumed dead on 19th May 1918. At the time of his death he was a sergeant in the 8th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. He is remembered with honour at the Pozieres Memorial and on the Mitcham War Memorial. The Pozieres memorial relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, and the months that followed before the Advance to Victory, which began on 8 August 1918. The Memorial commemorates over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918.
There are no details except for Sergeant Bathurst’s name on the Mitcham memorial and on the framed roll of honour on the south wall of Christchurch in Colliers Wood. No record has been found showing that he was resident in Mitcham at any time.