Todhunter Arthur Pte 4440664
Personnel Entry
Name Todhunter Arthur
Army number 4440664
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Not yet known.
Age 39 at the time of his death.
Unit Previously served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as Number 50644 for 1 yr 282 days service. Attested 21/7/21 at Gateshead for The Durham Light Infantry, Labourer aged 20, Territorial Army for 2 yrs. Posted to the 9th Battalion DLI. Discharged 20/7/23. Re-enlisted in the 9th Battalion DLI. Posted to the Defence Force for 78 days. Re-enlisted in the RASC 20/4/39. Transferred to the Black Watch 5/2/40, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. DIED 20/5/40, Authority:- R. Casualties.
Company/Battery HQ Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Driver.
Joined Brigade 5/2/1940.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not yet known.
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action DIED 20-May-40 - cause of death not yet known. Buried Plot 8. Row C. Grave 63. Longueness (St Omer) Souvenir War Cemetery. His headstone inscription reads: ALWAYS REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING WIFE MARY, DORIS, NORMA, ARTHUR, DAVID AND ANDREW. No details of any initial interment.
Home address Born Gateshead, Son of Robert and Isabella Todhunter, Husband of Mary Jane Todhunter( nee Wilkie, Married Gateshead). 68, Eland St. Gateshead.
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