Pte Arthur William Thomas Claridge, G/21209, 6th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), died on October 4th, 1917, from wounds sustained in France.

A hospital nurse wrote to parents Frederick and Hannah at Bendish, Herts, stating that their only son died in hospital as the result of shell wounds in the chest, back and arm. He was unconscious from the time he was wounded. He was buried in a French cemetery with a cross erected over his grave.

Arthur had been employed for six years as a moulder's assistant at the High Town Foundry in Luton. He was the first of the firm's employees to be lost in action. He had joined up six months to the day before his death and went to France three months to the day.