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Personal data

• Name ARDEN
• Initials JA
• First name JAMES ARTHUR
• Place of birth Stockport
• Country Cheshire, England
• Last residence Stockport, Cheshire
• Family Husband of Annie Arden, of 3, Port St., Princes St., Stockport. One child.
• Profession Worked for the Great Central Railway at the Company?s Gorton locomotive building works

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment January 1915, Stockport, Cheshire
• Service number 17668
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
• Division - Brigade 87th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 29th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 9 May 1915
  

Death

• Wounded On the 6th, the men were working improving the defences in Monmouth and New Trenches. IThe war diary states “Work interrupted by enemy MG (machine gun) fire. Casualties 1 man killed, 1 wounded.”
• Date of death 6 September 1916
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery IX - D - 16

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