Death & Memorial Certificates
[Left]
A Memorial Plaque in Saint Pancras church, Alton Pancras, commemorating among others Arthur and his brother (Alfred) George who was killed in action on 21st August 1915, aged 22, while serving in the Fifth Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment.
[Right]
A Machine Gun Corps Cavalry Certificate for Arthur; it is sad to note that he is wished “all success and prosperity in his future career”.
Message from King George V
Message from Lord Milner, Secretary of State for War
Royal Scroll
Busigny War Cemetery
Arthur’s wife, Alma, was sent this letter informing her that his body was to be re-interred. Busigny is only a few kilometres from Vaux Andigny. Although she had expressed some interest in visiting the grave, she never did. Their daughter, Betty Alma CROAD, visited Busigny after she was 70 years old.
Reinterment
The Village of Busigny
Gravestone
The Cemetery is on the left side of the Rue de Cimetière, the D98C road, on leaving Busigny to the north west. This map, photo of the gravestone and other useful information was meticulously supplied to all who were next of kin to those who had died in the First World War.
More recent photographs of Busigny Cemetery and the headstone, showing how immaculately the whole area is kept, mostly by local people who are paid to do the work of weeding and mowing the grass. What a contrast to the unkempt graveyards in Britain!
A Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemoration certificate; and two extracts from registration documents held by the CWGC
Alma at Sway in the 1960s
