Full Name: Henry Joseph ARNOLD
Nationality: British
Rank: Private
Regiment: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”)
Unit: 2nd Battalion
Age at Death: 37
Date of Death: 27 September 1917
Service number: G/4394
Memorial: Loos Memorial, France and Ospringe village war memorial, Kent, UK [pictured]
EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/726739/
Henry (known as ‘Harry’) was born in 1880 in Ospringe, Kent, to James and Mary Arnold (nee Videon). He was the ninth of 15 children born to then between 1864 and 1892.
In the 1901 Census Harry was listed as a Gasworks Labourer; in the 1911 Census he was still living at home with his parents – aged 32 – and was working as a General Labourer