Herbert Alfred ARMES Richard John LISTER

At the foot of this tree dedicated to Private 24482876 Alan Matthew SMYTH which is at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire is s Poppy Cross Memorial with the following names.

Herbert Alfred ARMES and Richard John LISTER

Private 41667, Herbert Alfred ARMES, 6th Bedfordshire Regiment killed in action 8th April 1918 aged 19. He was born at Hemingford Grey. In 1911 lived with his widowed mother Rosetta, a Publican, and his siblings at The New Crown, Arms Corner, 2, Oxford Road, St Ives, Huntingdonshire. His late father was called Herbert. He is commemorated on a poppy cross along with Richard J Lister at the foot of a tree dedicated to Alan Matthew SMYTH Ex UDR at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire and he is at rest at Gommecourt British Cemetery, No2, Hebuterne, France.

Private 20316 Richard John LISTER, 8th Bedfordshire Regiment killed in action on the 15th September 1916 aged 32. He was born at St Ives, and lived at Needingworth, both in Huntingdonshire He was the son of John and Susan Jane. In 1911 he was now a married and he was living with his wife Clara nee Dodson at East Street, St Ives, Huntingdonshire. He was employed as a coal carrier. He is commemorated on a poppy cross along with Herbert Alfred Armes at the foot of a tree dedicated to Alan Matthew SMYTH Ex UDR at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas. He is also commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.