General Notes

Corporal G/273 “D” Company 7th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed in action, France & Flanders 23rd October 1915. Born Stoke Newington, Middlesex, enlisted London. Son of the Rev. H. M. de Ste Croix and Mrs. De Ste Croix, of St Saviour’s Rectory, Guernsey. No known grave. Commemorated on the LOOS Memorial, France. Panel 69-73. The following is taken from page 40 of: ‘The History of the Seventh (Service) Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment’ …About 10.15 p.m., without the slightest warning, a shower of bombs began to fall at the end of the trench near a barricade, and, although it was difficult to tell form which direction they came, our bombers at once retaliated, while Captain Jay opened a heavy fire with his machine-guns. For some fifteen minutes a stiff bomb fight ensued, eventually dying down as suddenly as it had begun, without a single German having succeeded in gaining a footing in the trench. The operation cost us 3 killed, including Corporal A. N. De St. Croix, of “D” Company…….. Arthur, was killed in action at Essex Sap, Hulluch Road.