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Arthur Gresty served as a Sergeant in the 6th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, which was raised at the Victoria Barracks, Beverley on 27 Aug 1914. He served in the Dardenelles arriving there on 14 Jul 1915 to take part in the action at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey. The 6th Battalion were designated as Pioneers but at Suvla fought as infantrymen. The Battalion was withdrawn from Suvla in Dec 1915 and spent a few months in Egypt on Suez Canal defence duties. In Jul 1916 they moved to France and saw action on the Somme at Flers-Courcelette and Thiepval and then in 1917 on the Ancre and at Passchendaele. Arthur was wounded in 1917 and was transferred to the Labour Corps as a Sergeant, considered unfit for further front line duties. He won the 1914-1915 Star and the War and Victory medals. He remained in the Labour Corps after the war until 1921. He re-enlisted as a Private in the 46th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers.
Arthur was born in Sale, Manchester in 1874 the son of Sarah Ellen Gresty. He joined the East Yorkshire Regiment at the age of 19. He served in South Africa and India. In 1904 he resigned whilst based in Beverley and joined the Hull Police force. On 30 Oct 1904 he married Mabel Bishoprick at St Mary's Church, Beverley. They lived in Waterloo Street, Hull and later at Villa Place and Andrew Marvell Street, Hull. They had two sons, George Arthur born 1907, and Cyril born 1909 in Hull. In 1906 Arthur resigned from the Police.
In Jul 1912 Arthur received a prison sentence of two months hard labour for the theft of £6.15s and a bicycle in Scunthorpe where he was, according to the local press, living with a local woman and working as a door keeper at the Geisha Picture Palace in the town.
After the war the couple lived on Derby Avenue, Bright Street, Hull.
Arthur died in 1944 aged 70.
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