{"id":6152,"date":"2025-03-28T20:46:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:46:26","slug":"arbon-a-j-pte-2-035385-army-service-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/arbon-a-j-pte-2-035385-army-service-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbon A J Pte 2\/035385 Army Service Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARBON, ALFRED JOHN, Private, No. 2\/035385, Mechanical Transport, Royal Army Service Corps, s. of Arthur A. Arbon, of Foxearth, co, Essex, by his wife, Elizabeth (-); b. Cavendish, co. Suffolk, 27 Aug. 1888; educ. C.C. School, Foxearth; volunteered for active service soon after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Army Service Corps 9 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 16 July, 1915, and was killed in action by the explosion of a shell, near St. Waast, 8 Nov. 1918. Buried at Breaugies, north-east of Le Quesnoy. His Major wrote: &#8220;Private Arbon had a high sense of duty, and was a most excellent driver, useful man, and good comrade. His lorry was the show lorry of the company, and the amount of care he bestowed in keeping it ready at all times for the road was incredible,&#8221; and the Captain: &#8220;We had been in the same company since Oct. 1914, and I can assure you there was no more popular man in the company; he was always happy and cheerful, and his loss is very greatly felt.. He died like a gallant man, doing his duty for his country.&#8221; He m. at Marlborough, 15 July, 1915, Jessie (Cavendish Road, Glemsford, co. Suffolk), dau. of (-) Golding.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARBON, ALFRED JOHN, Private, No. 2\/035385, Mechanical Transport, Royal Army Service Corps, s. of Arthur A. Arbon, of Foxearth, co, Essex, by his wife, Elizabeth (-); b. Cavendish, co. Suffolk, 27 Aug. 1888; educ. C.C. School, Foxearth; volunteered for active service soon after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Army Service Corps 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-service-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}