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Pte. Arthur Griffin
British army 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Birmingham
Arthur Griffin was born on 16th December 1898 at 73 Plume Street, Aston, Birmingham to Arthur and Sarah Griffin. He fought and was captured at Passchendaele in Belgium on 21/3/1918 and was forced to march to Germany to a p.o.w. camp where he spent the remainder of the war.
He met and married Ethel Elizabeth Cragg in November 1923 and went on to have eight children two of whom died as children. He worked at Dunlop tyres in Birmingham until he retired and died in 1984.
Editor's Note:- His Battalion were part of the 14th (Light) Division which were overrun when the German Spring Offensive (Operation Michael) which commenced on 21st March 1918, with the battle of Saint Quentin which was a phase of the Battle of the Somme 1918. He was one of many prisoners taken by the Germans that day.
