Arthur Lawrence Dudley - London Postal Service and the Post Office Rifles
10/10/2023
Arthur was born in Islington in London, to Arthur William and Esther Sophia Dudley. He was appointed Assistant Postman in 1910 and Sorter in 1913. He left the London Postal Service to serve with the Post Office Rifles in the First World War.
Arthur and J.S. Gatehouse, who is buried very close by in Row D, Grave 5, were the first two members of the Post Office Rifles to be laid to rest in Post Office Rifles Cemetery, having died on the same day, the day after the unit entered the front-line trenches near Givenchy in May 1915.
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