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Rank : Captain

Army Number : 15054

Unit : 3rd Bn, 1st Bn

Biography :

Arthur Bagshaw was Sergeant 15054 in The Lincolnshire Regiment at the start of the First World War. He entered the Balkans on 21.11.1915. From an Officer Cadet Unit, he was commissioned 2Lt in The Leicestershire Regiment on 1.8.1917, initially in 3rd Bn and then in in B Company 1st Bn from about Oct 1917, including the Battle of Cambrai. Reported missing on 23.3.19818, the first day of the German final offensive. After release as a POW and demobilisation he remained in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers (General List). He served in British South Africa Police 1919-1920, Northern Rhodesia Police Military Branch and Northern Rhodesia Regt (NRR) 1920-1943, including Copperbelt Riots 1938, for which he was awarded the M.B.E. as a Captain in the NNR (L.G. 13.6.1939). He had been granted a commission in the NRR on 23.4.1937 and to be local Capt wef 29.6.1931 (L.G. 11.3.1938). He commanded the NRR 1940-43, and was Director of an Evacuee Camp in Rhodesia 1943-1949, when he retired from military service. The record of an interview given by him about his military service is held in the Imperial War Museum http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80004310.
He died in 1981, aged 84 years.

Date of Birth : 31.5.1895

Place of Birth : Grafton Underwood, Northants

Date of Death : 1981

Place of Death : Salisbury, Wilts

Period of Service : 1914-18; 1939-45

Conflicts : WW1, WW2

Places Served : Balkans, France and Flanders, Northern Rhodesia (WW2)