Ian Sim has submitted the following:
Arthur Haslam was the only son of the Reverend Hedley Haslam and Margaret Dixon. He was born in Newcastle in 1892 where his father was combining teaching duties at the Newcastle (Royal) Grammar School and various chaplaincies throughout the city. In 1917 Arthur’s father was appointed vicar of St. Ebba’s, Beadnell.
The regiment was sent to France on the 15th July 1915. The 9th battalion were engaged in various actions on the western front from July 1915. Towards the end of the war they were involved in the final battles near the Belgian border in the Picardy region of northern France. Arthur was badly wounded near the town of Valenciennes and died of his wounds on the 2nd November 1918, just nine days before the end of the conflict. He is buried at the British Cemetery, Rocquigny Equancourt, near the village of Manancourt, Picardy.
In March 1918 Arthur had married Leslie Cail of Jesmond, Newcastle. After Arthur’s death Leslie never re-married and died in 1964.
Arthur’s father remained as vicar of this church until 1936, combining his duties as ‘correspondent’ for Beadnell School as well as the diocese’s schools inspector. He died in 1940 at Riding Mill, Hexham. Arthur’s mother Margaret died in 1935.Arthur is remembered in this church.
Arthur Dixon Haslam is remembered on Alnwick Gazette Almanack , in Beadnell on B10.01 in Jesmond on J1.04 and J1.19 page 29, and in Newcastle on NUT063 and NUT273
