ARTHUR KEEN MM was serving as a Sergeant in the 35th Seige Battery, The Royal Garrison Artillery when he died of wounds received on the 31st March 1917. He was aged 25 and is buried in  Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty in the Pas de Calais. 

He was the son of James and Clara Keen of Kingham and joined the RGA as a professional soldier in 1910. He joined the 35th Seige Battery and arrived with them in France in September 1915. On the 11th October 1916 he won the Military Medal during the Battle of the Ancre. He died in the 1/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station.

Steve Kingsford