ARTHUR POLLARD

RANK: 2nd Lieutenant.

REGIMENT: "C" Coy. 2nd/6th Bn.Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

BORN: Leeds.

ENLISTED: Alexandra Egypt?

GAVE HIS LIFE: 21/03/1918.

AGED: 27.

CEMETERY: Arras Memorial.

PANEL: Bay 4.

LEEDS MODERN: 1903-1906.

Arthur was the son of Joseph Henry a schoolmaster Born Leeds 1860 and Sarah Eleanor Thurwell Born Leeds 1862, who married at Leeds in 1886, they had one daughter Alice Eleanor.

Arthur was the last old Leeds Boy to be awarded the Science and Art Scholership. In October 1915 Arthur joined the Royal Army Medical Corps at Alexandria Egypt? and returned to England in 1917 to train as a cadet at Lichfield near Stafford.

On the 12th November 1917 Arthur was gazetted to the Notts and Derby Regiment, and was posted to France in January 1918.

On the 21st March 1918 Arthur was reported missing, an eywitness report from the time gave the follwing details,

"he was first wounded by a German Officer,but continued to assist his *Company Sergeant Major (also wounded)* until they were both shot again, and killed instantly"

this event was said to have taken part at Tank avenue, Bullecourt, near Cambrai.

*I have researched the Company Serjeant Major from the 2/6th Bn killed on that day by crosschecking the Army's Those who Died and the CWGC site :

Company Serjeant Major John Randall Kitchen Service Number 305688 Aged 24, Born and Enlisted in Mansfield, Son of Sarah Kitchen, of 100 Union St Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and the late Charles Kitchen.

Both Arthur and John Randall both lie where they fell to this day and are remembered on the Arras Memorial to the missing.

The CWGC shows the following details:


"Son of Joseph Henry and Sarah Eleanor Pollard, of 14, Eldon Place, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds."