Arthur Lakes's Story.
Arthur Lakes Chalmers was born in Oxton in 1893. He was the son of Arthur, a chartered accountant and Charlotte Chalmers of 1 South Hill Grove, Oxton.In 1901 he was boarding at school in Parkgate, he also attended Bilton Grange School in Warwickshire.
In 1911 he was attending Sedbergh Public School, Yorkshire. After leaving school he went to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to work as an overseer on a tea plantation.
Arthur returned to Britain in order to enlist in the Army. He joined the 7th Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment, commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, and arrived in France on 4th August 1916.
On 23rd September 1916 Second Lieutenant Chalmers, aged 23, was killed in action whilst in the front line near Flers on the Somme. He is buried in grave C12 at Longueval Road cemetery, France.
Arthur Lakes Chalmers is also remembered on the Trinity with Palm Grove WW1 memorial, inside the church.
Research and memorial photograph by Chris Booth.