Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

The grave of AL Badcock at Elzenwalle.  Photographed for 'Marching in Memory' for Combat Stress, July 2015

The grave of AL Badcock at Elzenwalle. Photographed for ‘Marching in Memory’ for Combat Stress, July 2015

Today we remember …

14th October 1915.  Arthur Badcock, C Social 1908.  Lt, 6th Bn, Yorkshire Light Infantry.  Killed in action, Battle of Loos.

 

At the outbreak of the war he was studying medicine at St John’s College, Cambridge. He and his brother, Edmund, volunteered immediately in 1914. Edmund was killed on the Somme in 1916

 

Aged 21

Arthur Badcock, Lt, 6th Bn, Yorkshire LI.  kia 14 October 1915

Arthur Badcock, Lt, 6th Bn, Yorkshire LI. kia 14 October 1915