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.