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Pte. Arnold George Archer MM.
British Army 16th (Public School) Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Walthamstow
Arnold Archery was awarded the MM after the Battle of Cambrai in which he sustained a gun shot would and subsequently lost his left leg.
His father Harry was a schoolmaster and had been headmaster of the Ormskirk Boys School in the 1880s.
Arnold was taken to the Ormskirk Military Hospital in 1918 to convalesce, to the town his father had taught in and his brother had been born in.