Henry Rudolph Arundell

Private – 1/4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

Died: 15th April 1917

Aged: 34 Years

Died of wounds in No.2 Base Hospital, le Havre, France

Henry Arundell was born in 1883 in Cheltenham to William and Jane Arundell. He grew up in Clare Place off Bath Road where he lived with his widowed father, who was a mineral water salesman. His mother died when he was seven years old. His sister Ellen was a Housemaid and his two brothers, Albert and Sidney, worked for a Greengrocer and Butcher respectively .

In 1901Henry had been working as a Tailor’s Porter but in 1911 he had married Mary Jane from Monmouthshire and moved to Newport where he was then working as a Hotel Porter. He enlisted at Bristol and was drafted to France with the 1/4 Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.

Henry was wounded during the battle in the Somme sector near Lempire. He had been evacuated to the No 2 Base Hospital at Le Havre but died on the 15th April 1917, leaving a widow and two daughters, Vera May and Kathleen who lived at 1 Victoria Road, Bristol. He is buried in the St, Marie Cemetery at Le Havre and the inscription on his gravestone reads “They Will Be Found”.

He is commemorated on the Cheltenham war memorial as well as St. Luke’s Church Roll of Honour, where his name is the first engraved name on the left hand column. in 1945, Henry’s father’s address is given as 27 Upper Norwood Street. It is not known why he didn’t claim the cross which is now in the cemetery.

Private HENRY RUDOLPH ARUNDELL

The Fallen