Private. 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Service number 22324.
Early life:
Arthur was born in Keighley in 1898, registered in Keighley in the last quarter of the year. Parents William and Agnes Lund.
In 1901 he was two years old and living at the Bay Horse Inn at Cononley with his parents and brother Fred. His father William was an iron moulder and the innkeeper.
By 1911 he was twelve and living at 30, Kensington Street, Keighley with his parents and brother. His father William was an iron moulder at a washing machine factory. Arthur was a Doffer at a worsted spinning mill part time, and a scholar part time.
War service:
Arthur enlisted in summer 1917 with Coldstream Guards and the service number 1777 and went out to France in February 1918, probably being transferred to the 2nd Battalion around this time with the service number 22324. Arthur was killed in action on May 21, 1918. He was buried in grave 5, row D, plot XVII of Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
War diary of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards for May 1918:
May 13. The Battalion relieved the 1st Battalion Irish Guards in the left sector. A quiet relief. No 1 Company
on the left, no. 3 Company on the right, No 2 in support, No 4 in reserve.
May 16. On the 16th the reserve company relieved the left company, and the support Company relieved the right company. The work undertaken consisted of joining up the posts and deepening the communications.
All the posts were joined up during this tour in the line and a considerable amount of salvage was collected.
May 19. The Battalion was relieved by the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, and returned to MONCHY AU BOIS. At POMMIER the usual instructional classes were in progress for the details.
May 20. Lieutenant A. Gordon joined the battalion and was posted to no. 2 company. Lieutenant H. A. Finch joined the battalion and was posted to no. 4 company.
May 22. The battalion relieved the 1st Battalion Irish Guards in the right sector. No. 2 company on the left, no 4. Company on the right, no. 1 in support, No 3 in reserve. A quiet relief.
The 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards on the left raided German posts successfully in the early morning, securing a prisoner without loss to themselves, save four wounded by our own barrages.
Keighley News June 15, 1918 page 3:
WORTH VALLEY.
Private Arthur Lund, Coldstream Guards, son of Mr and Mrs Lund, Lodge Farm, Oakworth, has been killed by a shell splinter. Private Lund, who was 19 years of age, was a member of the Keighley second eleven (cricket team). He had been in the Army about twelve months, and went to France in February this year.
Post war:
Arthur was posthumously awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal for his war service.
He is remembered in Keighley’s Great War roll of honour in Keighley Library, and on the Oakworth War Memorial in Holden Park, Oakworth.
