Information: Geordie at War Project

Corporal Arthur Haveron with his bother.

Arthur Haveron

Original Grave Marker in France

In Benwell (St.James) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:

The Geordie at War Project states:

“The War Diary of 447th Field Company indicates they were involved in training at Invergny prior to 20 September 1918. The War Diary states that a soldier was admitted to No. 29 Casualty Clearing Station on 19 September. This may have been Cpl. Haveron.”

Lindy Leavold has submitted the following:

I am researching Arthur Haveron who died in France on 20/9/1918. My interest is that he was engaged to my grandmother and died a month before their wedding. My grandmother was Mary Gamble born in South Shields November 16th 1891. After his death she migrated to Australia in the early 1920s where she married and had 6 children and never returned to the UK.

I have identified him as her fiancé from a photo we have of a wooden cross with his name and his photo attached. I assume this was taken at his grave in France. I intend to visit his grave in May 2014. I would be interested in any information you have connecting him to Mary Gamble or about his family."

If anybody can help, would they please contact Lindy ljleavold@hotmail.com

[Arthur Haveron was one of 11 children, six boys and five sisters, he resided at 72/74 Clara Street, Benwell in 1901, Newcastle. He worked in the Ordnance factory in 1911 as a apprentice engineer. He was awarded 3 medals, he was in the 447th Field Company in the 50th Division and had 2 serial numbers, which may indicate that he was wounded more than once, He enlisted with the Serial Number 1490, but later allocated the number of 459286. He entered France on the 18/04/1915. He was an acting Corporal when he was killed. His father Thomas Haveron was a self-employed grocer working with his son Jacob, of 20 Adelaide Terrace, Benwell, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

His fiancé Mary Gamble was born in South Shields, and had resided at 23 Wilton Street, South Shields. She lived with her parents and her widowed grandfather, Thomas Gamble who was a retired joiner in 1901. By 1911 she had moved to 60 Ellesmere Road, Benwell, Newcastle, where she was employed at an Engineering Company as a typist then aged 19.]

Research: James Pasby

Arthur Haveron is remembered at Benwell on B86.02 and B86.09

The CWGC entry for Corporal Haveron