Frost, A A
ARTHUR/ARTIE ALICK/ALEC/ALECK FROST
Remembered with honour Guards Cemetery: Plot IV, Row B, Grave 36.
He enlisted in October 1914 in Bedford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 7 April 1915, and was killed in action when an artillery shell dropped among a group of E.A.R.E. men. Unfortunately, Arthur’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Frederick and Emeline/Emmelyn/Emlyn/Emily Lonsdale (nee BRUTON) FROST of Luton, Beds.
His parents married 1887 in the Luton district. Frederick died 1930 aged 63; Emlyn died 1923 aged 56; both in the Luton district.
Arthur was born 1889 in Luton, and resided in Luton. He was a former secretary of the Glendale Football Club, Luton.
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 he was a visitor with his family in Luton. On the 1901 Census, aged 11 he lived in Luton, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a straw hat worker aged 21 he still lived in Luton, with his parents and four siblings.
Service number
1663Rank
SapperUnit
1st (East Anglian) Field CompanyRegiment
Place buried
Date of death
25*/06/1915Age at death
25Place of death
Memorial(s)
Notes
Arthur is possibly the A A FROST commemorated at Oxhey- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)