Hatfield Arthur Douglas Lieutenant 258858
Personnel Entry
Name Hatfield Arthur Douglas
Army number 258858.
Rank Lieutenant.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards
Date of birth Born 17/5/1916 at Middlesbrough. Mother's maiden surname Robinson.
Age 28 at the time of his death).
Unit Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers 17/1/1943. Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Served Normandy. KILLED in ACTION 17/6/1944.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Details awaited.
Joined Brigade Not yet known.
Promotions None known beyond Lieutenant.
Wounded Not so far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action KILLED in ACTION 17/6/1944. Initially interred at Ducy St Marguerite - Map reference 7F 1/50,000 858,734. Re-buried in Bayeux War Cemetery - Grave reference XIV. K. 20, probably on 14/2/1945. Headstone inscription reads "EVER PRESENT IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LOVED HIM". Probate granted to his father at 15 Pollitt Street, Barnsley, from York office on 3/3/1945.
Home address Son of Arthur Thomas Hatfield (retired Baths Superintendent) and Clara Hatfield; husband of Margaret Hatfield, of Barnsley, Yorkshire. In the 1939 General Register he was living in lodgings in Barnsley and working as a Municipal Engineer. In October 1940 in Barnsley he married Margaret Hope.
Source table
Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries. There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.
