L/Cpl. · 2/1 Wessex Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
Arthur Richard Cole
† 10/04/1918 · aged 23 · Chocques Military Cemetery, I.M.38
Personal data
Name
Cole
Initials
A.R.
Christian name
Arthur Richard
Date and place of birth
Exeter; 21.03.1895
Address
31 Wonford Road, Exeter
Profession
Exeter Bank branch (Union of London & Smiths Bank)
Family
Son of Arthur Cole, of 31, Wonford Rd., Exeter.
Military data
Service number
457379
Rank
L/Cpl.
Regiment / Unit
2/1 Wessex Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
Date of death
Age
23
Cemetery / Memorial
Chocques Military Cemetery, I.M.38
Other information
Information 1
Communicant at Talbot House, between 15.10 & 29.10.1916; between 22.07 & 11.11.1917
Information 2
Server in Upper Room of Talbot House
Information 3
Killed in action.
Information 4
Commemorated on war memorial at NatWest City of London office, Princes Street
Information 5
'The Stretcher Bearers' Lamp' - Swindon Branch. Endowed in May 1920. First lit on 15.12.1922 at The Guildhall, London, by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. "In memory of Arthur Cole, L/Cpl., 2/1 Wessex F.A., R.A.M.C., Givenchy, 10.4.1918"
Media
Sources
Source 1
Red Book, p.32 verso, p.54 recto
Source 2
CR-Slips-Book 2
Source 3
IWMIII.4.t (letters re subscriptions; no index-card made out; regimental address only, not private one)
