HURRELL, Arthur Herbert

Arthur was born 1887 in Southminster, Essex to George & Catherine Eva (nee CLARKE) HURRELL. In 1913 at the Victoria Methodist Church, Pyle Street in Newport he married Helena Grace HAWKINS who was living at ‘Coppidthorne’, Calbourne around the time of Arthur’s death.

Arthur lived all his life in Essex & joined the County Regiment after the outbreak of war. Arthur, aged 29, Died of Wounds, received in France, on the 13th of May 1917 at Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex after being evacuated back to the UK. He is buried in his home County at St. Leonard’s Churchyard in Southminster, beneath a Private Memorial. He rests alongside 3 other First World War comrades.

Arthur is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials, possibly out of respect for his wife Helena & young son. Later his son George, born on the Island in June 1917, would fall in the Second World War.