1240 Pte Arthur Hurst, 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Arrived overseas: 11 November 1914. Connection: Victory Medal. Arthur Hurst's Victory Medal cost me all of £22 when I purchased it online a while ago. The medal ribbon is a modern replacement, and he was also entitled of course to the 1914 Star and the British War Medal. Medal records show that he also applied for the clasp for his 1914 Star. Arthur enlisted with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on the 4th June 1912 and he arrived in France on the 11th November 1914. He'd been born in 1893 and so was a young man of 19 when he joined the army. At some point in time Arthur was wounded, receiving a gunshot wound to his leg, albeit it is sickness which is recorded on his silver war badge entry and which led to his discharge in June 1916. Various addresses appear on a pension ledger entry: 48 Queen Mary’s Road, Coventry; King’s Heath, Birmingham; 13 Little Francis Street, Saltley, Birmingham; 30 Grange Road; 65 Ravenhurst Street; 320 Dudley Road, Birmingham and l...