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Military service
Age:
30
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
27th Battalion
Birth:
February 19, 1886
Milmine, Illinois
Enlistment:
September 24, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
September 15, 1916
Rouen, France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
He mobilized for active service on Aug 24, 1914 with the 34th Fort Gary Horse, Winnipeg, Manitoba as a Private. He enlisted with (6th Batt.) and embarked for Britain on October 4, 1914. He was Commissioned Lieutenant on July 27, 1915 and attached to 11th Battalion, CEF. He went to France with the 27th Battalion on March 28, 1916 and was in charge of a portion of the first line trenches given to him at his own request. He was killed in action September 15, 1916 by machine gun fire in a charge on the German positions in the Battle of the Somme while taking the Sugar Refinery at Courcelette, France. He is buried in one of the many unknown graves in France and his name is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial.
Additional citations
British War Medal and Victory Medal. The Memorial (Silver) Cross was presented to his widow, Violet May
(Collins) Middleton, and to his mother, Anna Laura (Barnhart) Middleton.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
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Photo of ARTHUR MIDDLETON
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of ARTHUR MIDDLETON'S Family
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star for 11 April 1916. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of ARTHUR MIDDLETON
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram September 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Arthur Middleton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 135 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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