Arthur Luke Nind
Debt of Honour Register
In Memory of
ARTHUR LUKE NIND
Private
491/9604
7th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
who died on
Friday 1 June 1917 . Age 25 .
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Additional Information: |
Son of Arthur and Isobel Nind, of 81,
Canterbury Rd., Old Kent Rd., London; husband of Lilian Brabon (formerly
Nind), of 22, Buchan Rd., Nunhead, London. |
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Cemetery: |
ARRAS MEMORIALPas de Calais, France |
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Grave or Reference Panel Number: |
Bay 7 |
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Location: |
The Arras Memorial is in the
Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in
the western part of the town of Arras. The cemetery is near the Citadel,
approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station. |
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Visiting Information: |
The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of
each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In
some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment,
his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panels. Please
refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the
alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within the quoted
Panels. |
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Historical Information: |
The French handed over Arras to Commonwealth
forces in the spring of 1916 and the system of tunnels upon which the town is
built were used and developed in preparation for the major offensive planned
for April 1917. The Commonwealth section of the FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY
was begun in March 1916, behind the French military cemetery established
earlier. It continued to be used by field ambulances and fighting units until
November 1918. The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were
brought in from the battlefields and from two smaller cemeteries in the
vicinity. The cemetery contains 2,651 Commonwealth burials of the First World
War. In addition, there are 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of
them German. The graves in the French military cemetery were removed after
the war to other burial grounds and the land they had occupied was used for
the construction of the Arras Memorial and Arras Flying Services Memorial.
The ARRAS MEMORIAL commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United
Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between
the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and
have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period were the
Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in the spring of
1918. Canadian and Australian servicemen killed in these operations are
commemorated by memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bertonneux. A separate memorial
remembers those killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. The ARRAS FLYING
SERVICES MEMORIAL commemorates more than 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air
Service, the Royal Flying Corps, and the Royal Air Force, either by
attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original
enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known
grave. During the Second World War, Arras was occupied by United Kingdom
forces headquarters until the town was evacuated on 23 May 1940. Arras then
remained in German hands until retaken by Commonwealth and Free French forces
on 1 September 1944. The cemetery contains seven Commonwealth burials of the
Second World War. Both cemetery and memorial were designed by Sir Edwin
Lutyens, with sculpture by Sir William Reid Dick. |
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In Memory of
Private ARTHUR
LUKE NIND
491/9604, 7th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
who died age 25
on Friday 1 June 1917.
Private NIND, Son of Arthur and Isobel Nind, of 81, Canterbury Rd., Old Kent
Rd., London; husband of Lilian Brabon (formerly Nind), of 22, Buchan Rd.,
Nunhead, London.
Remembered with honour
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Commemorated
in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
18th (EASTERN) DIVISION
Formed at Colchester in September 1914 as part of the Second New Army. Arrived in France in July 1915. Served in France and Flanders until the Armistice.
Battles and Engagements.
France and Flanders.
Battle of Albert. 1-13 Jul 1916, including the capture of Montauban,
Mametz, Fricourt, Contalmaison and La Boisselle.
Battle of Bazentin. 14-17 Jul 1916, including the
capture of Longueval, Trones Wood and Ovillers.
Battle of Delville Wood. 15 Jul-3 Sep 1916.
Battle of Thiepval. 26-28 Sep 1916.
Battle of the Ancre Heights. 1-11 Oct 1916, including
the capture of the Schwaben Redoubt, Stuff Redoubt and the Regina Trench.
Battle of the Ancre. 13-18 Nov 1916, including the
capture of Beaumont Hamel.
Actions of Miraumont. 17-18 Feb 1917.
Capture of Irles. 10 Mar 1917.
German retreat to the Hindenburg Line. 14 Mar-5 Apr
1917.
Third Battle of the Scarpe. 3-4 May 1917, including
the capture of Fresnoy.
Battle of Pilkem. 31 Jul-2 Aug 1917.
Captured of Westhoek. 10 Aug 1917.
Battle of Langemarck. 16-18 Aug 1917.
First Battle of Passchendaele. 12 Oct 1917.
Second Battle of Passchendaele. 26 Oct-10 Nov 1917.
Battle of St. Quentin. 21-23 Mar 1918.
Battle of the Avre. 4 Apr 1918.
Action of Villers Bretonneux. 24-25 Apr 1918.
Battle of Amiens. 8-11 Aug 1918.
Battle of Albert. 21-23 Aug 1918, including the
capture of Chuignes.
Second Battle of Bapaume. 31 Aug-3 Sep 1918.
Battle of Epehy. 18 Sep 1918.
Battle of the St. Quentin Canal. 29 Sep-2 Oct 1918,
including the passage at Bellenglise and the capture of the Bellicourt tunnel
defences.
Battle of the Selle. 17-25 Oct 1918.
Battle of the Sambre. 4 Nov 1918, including the
passage of the Sambre-Oise canal and the capture of Le Quesnoy.
Infantry Units
53rd Brigade.
8th Bn Norfolk Regt. Sep 1914 - 06 Feb 1918. Disbanded, personnel to
the 7th and 9th Bns.
8th Bn Suffolk Regt. 09 Sep 1914 - 07 Feb 1918.
Disbanded, personnel to the 2nd, 1/4th and 7th Bns.
10th Bn Essex Regt. Sep 1914 - 11 Nov 1918.
6th Bn Royal Berkshire Regt. Sep 1914 - 06 Feb 1918.
Disbanded, personnel to the 1st, 2nd and 5th Bns.
8th Bn Royal Berkshire Regt. 02 Feb 1918 - 11 Nov
1918.
7th Bn Queen’s Own. 09 Feb 1918 - 11 Nov 1918.
54th Brigade.
10th Bn Royal Fusiliers. Sep 1914 - Oct 1914. Left the Brigade but remained
attached to the Division.
11th Bn Royal Fusiliers. 06 Sep 1914 - 11 Nov 1918.
2nd Bn Bedfordshire Regt. 22 May 1918 - 11 Nov 1918.
7th Bn Bedfordshire Regt. 25 Feb 1915 - 26 May 1918.
Reduced to Cadre on 25 May 1918. Surplus personnel to the 2nd Bn. Cadre to the
30th Division.
8th Bn Royal Sussex Regt. Sep 1914 - 04 Feb 1915.
Became the Pioneer Bn.
6th Bn Northamptonshire Regt. Nov 1914 - 11 Nov 1918.
12th Bn Middlesex Regt. Aug 1914 - 11 Nov 1918.
55th
Brigade.
7th Bn Queen’s.
Sep 1914 - 11 Nov 1918.
7th Bn Buffs. Sep 1914 - 11 Nov 1918.
8th Bn East Surrey Regt. Sep 1914 - 11 Nov 1918.
7th Bn Queen’s Own. Sep 1914 - 09 Feb 1918.
Pioneers.
8th Bn Royal Sussex Regt. 04 Feb 1915 - 11 Nov 1918.
Attached Troops.
10th Bn Royal Fusiliers. Oct 1914 - 24 Feb 1915. T.
6th Bn Northamptonshire Regt. Sep 1914 - Nov 1914.