Private Arthur John Groves
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Private, 31st Battalion, Infantry (Army).
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The following notice appeared in the Burlington Gazette on October 27th, 1915 with his photograph:
A despatch from Ottawa on Monday says that Pte. Arthur J. Groves, of H. Company, 31st Battalion, Sixth Brigade, had been killed in action in France. Pte. Groves was a former Burlington boy, and served his apprencticeship in the Gazette office. His mother and two brothers, Walter and Norman Groves, now reside in Dundas. After serving his apprenticeship in the Gazette office, Pte. Groves worked on Port Hope, Orillia and Dundas papers. Three years ago he went West, and when war broke out enlisted at Calgary. Three more ex-members of the Gazette staff have enlisted to fight for their country, names: - Eddie Billings,1 who is now in France; Earl Simone, at Niagara, and John L. Moore, of Acton, who spent a year here, now at London.
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Pte. Arthur Groves is remembered on both the Burlington and Dundas Ontario war memorials.
1Edward J. Billings mentioned the death of Arthur Groves in a letter home (see link below).
Source: M. I. Pirie, 2006
Killed with Lt. Tofft, Cpl. Henderson, Ptes. Callaghan, Sheridan and McInnes by a German shell while digging out comrades buried by a previous shell.