2387 Private Harry Arkinstall
1/6th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment

Also his friend 2390 Private Cyril Adey.
Cyril Adey and Harry Arkinstall had been friends since childhood. Both men lived in Tettenhall, Cyril at 48 Old Hill and Harry at 58 Limes Road. They had attended Tettenhall Church School together and on leaving both worked as cleaners at the Stafford Road Works in Wolverhampton. They had joined the 6th South Staffords together in June 1914, enlisting at the Drill Hall in Wolverhampton.

Privates Adey and Arkinstall volunteered for service overseas in August 1914 and arrived in France with the 1/6th Battalion in March 1915. The two friends were killed on 13 October 1915 during their battalion’s attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt. Cyril and Harry are both commemorated on the Loos Memorial and on the war memorial at St Michael and All Angels Church in Tettenhall.

Information supplied by Andrew Thornton

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