Private Arthur Frank Prior, 9723
- Batt - 1
- Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
- Section -
- Date of Birth -
- Died - 24/09/1916
- Age - 24
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Alfred and Sarah Alice Prior.
Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project. Coalville Times article - Friday October 13th, 1916
COALVILLE AND DISTRICT CASUALTIES
Private Arthur Frank Prior, of the Leicestershire Regiment, is reported to have been killed in action on or about September 25th. His widowed mother resides at 69, Granite Row, Ibstock Road, Ellistown, and the news has been sent to her by an officer. Private Prior was 24 years of age, and before the war worked at the Beveridge Lane Quarry.
Research undertaken and submitted (including photograph fro Coalville Times) by Andy Murby 17/10/2017
- Conflict - World War I
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Place - Iii C 23, Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension
- Other Memorials - Coalville War Memorial Clock Tower, Ellistown WW1 Centenary Memorial
- Attached Unit - 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
- Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
- Former Unit - Machine Gun Corps
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Commemoration - Dernacourt Com. Cem. Ext., France
- Born - Hugglescote, Leicestershire
- Enlisted - Leicester
- Place of Residence - 69 Ibstock Road, Ellistown, Leicestershire, England
- Memorial - CLOCK TOWER MEM., COALVILLE, LEICS
- Memorial - COUNCIL OFFICE MEM., COALVILLE, LEICS
- Memorial - ELLISTOWN MEMORIAL, LEICESTERSHIRE
