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Pte. Arthur Smith
British Army 9th Battalion Suffolk Regiment
from:Chatteris
(d.16th Sep 1916)
Arthur Smith was wounded in the leg at Ypres on May 8th 1915. He stayed in hospital at Exeter UK and was quoted by the local paper "Our fight in Ypres was hell. I thanked God when I got away from it. I don't know whether any of the fellows from Chatteris were wounded or killed in the fight, as I saw several of them five days before the battle".
Arthur was killed on the 16/9/1916 at Flers-Courcelette, attacking the Quadrilateral, as part of the Somme offensive. On reporting his death, a news paper article reported that Arthur, Frank Wheeler & Rifleman Freeman were all best friends at school. They all died within a week of each other in September 1916 on the Somme.
