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Corporal Edmund Arnsby, son of Samuel Arnsby, brother of Henry Alfred Arnsby
Cpl Edmund Arnsby

Samuel Arnsby & Charlotte Lloyd

Samuel & Charlotte
1859 - Is this when Samuel died?

Their children:

Henry Alfred Arnsby
Edmund Arnsby
Samuel Robert Arnsby
Charlotte 'Sophia' Rebecca Arnsby

Henry Arnsby & Jemima Yarlett

Henry & Jemima's family
    The Yarlett Family
Henry's Military Career

Their children:

Edmund Arnsby & Elizabeth Oglesby

Their children:

Lizzie Arnsby & James Ford

The Ford Family

'Ned' Arnsby & Margaret Coughlan

Their children:

Margaret's father - Cornelius Coughlan

Cornelius Coughlan

'Ned' Arnsby & Grace Mullen

Their children:

Cyril Edmund Arnsby

'Con' Arnsby & Marguerite Connor

Their children:

'Sophie' Arnsby & William Phillips

'Bob' Arnsby & Delia Connors

The Arnsby Eleven

Robert Alfred Arnsby


Known as: Bobby
Born: Birth registered in the 1st quarter of 1899
Christened: June 18, 1899
At: Woolwich, England
Died: June 18, 1918
Cause of Death: Gas Poisoning
Buried: Pernes British Cemetery, France
Rank and Initials: Gunner R
Regiment: 5th Army Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

About Bobby Arnsby


From Bobby's copy of 'A Soldiers Own Diary'

January 1, 1918 - Started Preliminary training.
June 5, 1918 - I am on guard tonight -- 3rd. relief.
June 6, 1918 - Expecting Fritz to break through tonight, consequently have to spend night in gunpit.
June 7, 1918 - Went to Bde. Hqs. on fatigues all day. 8 inch shells drop round our gunpit while I am away. I brought back a few souvenirs.
June 8, 1918 - Sent a letter home today.June 18, 1918 -

"Robert Arnsby, the owner of this
diary, died today after about nine days illness
---gas poisoning."

Bobby is buried at the Pernes British Cemetery in Pas de Calais, France

Perne-en-Artois is a small town on the main road from Lilliers to St. Pol and the British Cemetery is just west of the town on the road to Sains-les-Pernes.

The British cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and was begun in April 1918 when the 1st and 4th Canadian Casualty Clearing Stations, driven back by the German advance, came to Pernes.

The 6th and 22nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Stations arrived to be joined in August of 1918 by the 13th Canadian Casualty Clearing Station.

Almost al lof the burials at the Pernes British Cemetery were made by these units. There are 1,075 First World War burial in this cemetery. There are 18 graves from the Second World War.

Pictures for Bobby Arnsby
   
'Bobby' circa 1912
'Bobby' circa 1912
'Ted' and 'Bobby' with their father 'Bob' circa 1912
 
Circa 1912
'Bobby'
Circa 1912
'Bobby'
Circa 1912
'Ted' and 'Bobby' with their father 'Bob'
 
       
'Bobby' 1918
Lest We Forget...
Bobby's grave in France
Pernes British Cemetery, France
1918
Gunner Bobby Arnsby
1898 - 1918
Circa 1920
Headstone
Pernes British Cemetery, France
From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Web Site

Pernes British Cemetery
France

       
From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site
From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site
   
From the Commonweath War Graves Commission Web Site
From the Commonweath War Graves Commission Web Site

   
       
 
 

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