Arthur Hart

Captain Arthur Charles Hart was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1881, in Blaby, the son of Israel, a clothing manufacturing and later Mayor of Leicester, and Charlotte Victoria Hart (née Moses), of Cantebury and London, respectively. Educated at Cheltenham College,The Times (40866), Col A, p. 4: "Fallen Officers". 28 May 1915. Hart entered the militia in April 1900, commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment.The London Gazette (27183), p. 2509. 17 April 1900. Retrieved 3 August 2013. and subsequently transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers.
Hart arrived in France in January 1915. He was killed on 8 May, in command of "A" Company, 2nd Northumberlands, while defending against a German attack during the Battle of Frezenberg. The German attack, preceded by a sustained and concentrated bombardment, penetrated in areas and put a number of battalions, including the Northumberlands, into disarray.Dixon, John (2003), Magnificent But Not War: The Second Battle of Ypres 1915, pp. 231-2. Despite that, Hart's company proved particularly obdurate, frustrating its antagonists to such an extent that they relented in their efforts against it. The battalion's total casualties amounted to 497, including the capture of its commanding officer; the remnants of "A" Company consisted of 2 officers and 65 men.Edmonds, Sir James Edward & Wynne, Graeme Chamley (1927), Military operations: France and Belgium, 1915, p. 322. Although twice wounded prior to the battle, including a serious head wound, Hart had elected to remain on the front.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Menin Gate Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Hart, Arthur Charles, cwgc.org. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
Category:1881 births
Category:1915 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Menin Gate Memorial
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