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RSM. Arthur Stratton
British Army 12th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Portsmouth
(d.26th Sep 1916)
Regimental Sergeant Major Arthur Stratton was killed on the 26th September 1916 at the Somme and his name is marked on the Thiepval Memorial. He did not know that his son (aged 19 months) Ronald Ernest Stratton died of tubercular meningitis two hours earlier at their home in Portsmouth. My grandfather, Army Chaplain, Rev. Herbert Butler Cowl (attached to Portsmouth Garrison) buried the little boy. It is not known if Arthur Stratton had ever seen his son.