WW1 100 years on - Arthur Henry Thomas Northover

Name	Arthur Henry Thomas Northover
Address	Albion Cottages (now Wessex cottage), Osmington, Nr Weymouth, Dorset
Date of Birth Place	21 June 1896 Westham, Weymouth
Date of Death Place	6 Sep 1916 Flanders, France
Family Info	Mother Dorcas Northover nee Mears was born in Osmington 1864 died and buried there in 1915. Father Frederick Northover died in 1897 in Littlemoor and is buried in Broadway. His parents married in Preston on 11 September 1892 They had four sons only Arthur and William lived to adulthood and both were killed in 1916 on the western front. His older brother William Fred Northover died in October 1916
Military Information: Killed September 1916 Private in the Dorsetshire Regiment 6th Battalion Regimental Number:16855 Arthur was killed in action or died of wounds shortly after battle. The war record states that he was presumed dead. His body was subsequently found and buried. Delville Wood, was the scene of heavy fighting during the 1916 Battle of the Somme. He is buried at Delville Wood Cemetery in Plot XVII. B. 8. located near Longueval, France. It is the third largest cemetery in the Somme battlefield area. His body was not immediately found so information marked at the graveside states only Private, Dorsetshire Regiment. Age: Unknown. However his service number has been included so he has been posthumously identified.
Further Information: Before the war he was working with his brother William as a carter boy on a farm in Preston

He was baptised at Holy Trinity church in Weymouth on 30 August 1896, his father was listed as a labourer and the family were living at 14 Rose terrace, Weymouth.

When he died a war gratuity was paid to his next of kin, his aunt Emma Mears.