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225615 Pte. Arthur Wainer British Army 8th Btn. The York & Lancaster Regiment from:High Street, Ruskington, Lincs. (d.2nd October 1917) This soldier is not a relative but used to live in the village where I now live. I am building a website to commemorate all the men on our local War Memorial. Graham E Conway Add to this record.    Additional Information: According to his enlistment papers, Arthur was born on the 3rd December 1894, the youngest child of Tom (Bricklayer) and Ellen (Helen) [née Prince] Wainer. He had nine older brothers and sisters, Annie Mary, Florence Helen, Elizabeth, Tom Prince [MIC – BEF Russia on Arthur’s records], John Richard, William, George Frederick, Rebecca Louisa and Nellie. In 1901 (Census RG 13/3048) the family were living at Princes Yard, Ruskington, Lincolnshire [Two house from the Warne family.]. By 1911 (Census RG 14/19618) they had moved to High Street North, Ruskington, although Nellie and Arthur were the only children still living with their parents. Arthur was working as a “Bricklayer's Assistant”, no doubt with his father, however, his mother died in the December quarter 1914. At the time of his enlistment he was 5 ft. 9 ins (1.75 m.) tall and weighed 9 st. 11 lbs. (62.1 kgs.). He gave his occupation as a “Bricklayer”. Arthur enlisted at Ruskington, Lincolnshire on 8th December 1915 and immediately posted to the Reserve, where he remained until he was mobilised on the 4th January 1917 and posted to the Royal Engineers on the 7th, at the Lincolnshire Regiment Depot, for assessment. This was recorded as “unsuitable”, as he failed the eyesight test, on the 13th and he was re-posted to the 3rd Training Reserve the next day. Arthur was eventually posted to France on 26th April 1917, embarking from Folkestone and landing at Boulogne the following day. He was posted initially to the 31st Base Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers at Étaples, however, on the 12th May 1917 he was transferred again, this time to the 8th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, and a month later, on 8th June, was wounded, receiving a gunshot wound to his back. Arthur was admitted to the 12th Casualty Clearing Station at Needinghem on the 14th, transferring to the 2nd Canadian General Hospital at Le Tréport a week later (21st). On the 8th July 1917 Arthur rejoined his Battalion in the field, but was killed in action on the 2nd October 1917. The inscription on his parents’ grave in Ruskington Cemetery states: “Killed in Action at Inverness Copse”. Graham E. Conway Reply Related Content: 8th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? If so please let us know. Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?" We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages. The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Hosted by: The Wartime Memories Project Website is archived for preservation by the British Library Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved - We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.