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Lance Corporal Arthur Harvey, 1st Battalion Honourable Artillery Company, Lewis Gun Section was born in Beverley in 1896. His father Francis Harvey was HM Inspector of Schools in the East Riding, in 1887 he married Helen Freeman a farmer’s daughter born in Walkington. At the time of their marriage she was living with her widowed mother on Lorne Street Beverley, they subsequently moved to 69 Norwood. Arthur was baptised at St Mary’s Church, Beverley and attended Beverley Grammar School and Hymer’s College, Hull before going to the Crypt School in Gloucester. He won a scholarship to study history at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He had one sister Mary, and two brothers John and Francis.
The war prevented him taking up this place and he enlisted into one of the oldest elements of the British Army, the Honourable Artillery Company in 1915. The Beverley Guardian 19 May 1917 lists him as serving in the Lewis Gun Section. When Arthur was killed in action on 23 April 1917 his company were engaged in the Battles for Arras, he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in France. Arthur was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
By the time of his death his father had taken up the position of Inspector of Schools for Gloucester, this is probably the reason why Arthur Harvey’s name does not appear on any of the local War Memorials
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