Arthur,+W

ARTHUR, Wentworth Lance Corporal, 7879276, 4th Royal Tank Regiment. Missing in the Middle East on 20th June 1942. Later officially reported that he was killed in action on this date, age 32. Born in Northumberland. Husband of Sarah M. Arthur of 22 Cark Rd, Keighley. (The CWGC gives an address of Hyde Park,London.) They had one child. He served four and a half years prior to the war in India, and when war broke out he was called up again, and was in the evacuation of Dunkirk. He was formerly employed by the West Yorkshire Road Car Company as a driver See Keighley News, 29th January 1944 (Photo) Commemorated on the Keighley WW2 Memorial in the Library. nb. It may be that his wife moved away from the area to London. The CWGC registers were compiled some years after the war, and the address given can be misleading.

Commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt, Col 22