{"id":1516,"date":"2021-10-31T19:56:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T19:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/favell.org.uk\/wp\/?page_id=1516"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:46:53","slug":"arthur-favell-royal-fusiliers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/arthur-favell-royal-fusiliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Favell Royal Fusiliers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1516\" class=\"elementor elementor-1516\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-56a5609d elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"56a5609d\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"service-1\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-37996667\" data-id=\"37996667\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ae77321 elementor-reverse-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4ae77321\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-22e21a95\" data-id=\"22e21a95\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59649229 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"59649229\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Arthur Favell<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e28771e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e28771e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>66909 Private Arthur Favell Royal Fusiliers<br \/>The photo shows Arthur Favell with his wife Bertha and daughter Joan.\u00a0 Arthur was the son of Alfred and Rachael who were from Hemingford Grey in Huntingdonshire.\u00a0 Alfred was the brother of my Great x3 Grandfather.\u00a0 Rachael was a Titchmarsh, the same family in Hemingford Grey from which the TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh is descended.\u00a0 Like others from Hemingford who left the villages for the large towns, the family headed North to Bradford, probably in search of work or what was seen as better opportunities.\u00a0 Young Arthur was born in Bingley and worked in the cotton mills, then later for Rolls Royce where he was employed as a painter. Arthur served with the Royal Fusiliers during WW1 and told of having to kill a German soldier in a one-to-one exchange. The German blinked first and took a fatal shot to the chest. Arthur made time to grant his final wish of a drink and a cigarette and was given the dying man\u2019s Luger, a semi-automatic pistol much favoured by infantrymen, by way of thanks.\u00a0 Arthur married Bertha while he was on home leave but his day was cut short when he was promptly arrested.\u00a0 He had failed to declare the fact that he was already married to Nora, who watched from a distance and tipped off the police. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, which was promptly suspended to allow him to return to the front to serve with the Labour Corps .\u00a0 He then supported the war effort as a driver with artillery battalions and worked on other labouring duties.\u00a0 His Medal Index Card shows his reallocation as Private 420076 in the Labour Corps and also his entitlement to the Great war Medal and Victory Medal.\u00a0 He is believed to have served the prison sentence he was handed down after the war. Bertha and their daughter waited for him and they were married on his release, this time properly after his first wife had divorced him. He then promptly changed his name to Walter Scott after the novelist and went on to run several Public Houses including the Peacock Inn in Birkenshaw. \u2018Wally\u2019 was a larger than life character who enjoyed his football and gambling. Background information and photograph kindly supplied by Wally\u2019s (Arthur\u2019s) Grandson Richard Paddison.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-2f9f1e\" data-id=\"2f9f1e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1afd8301 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1afd8301\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Arthur-Favell-Copy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1517\" alt=\"Arthur Favell Royal Fusiliers\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Arthur-Favell-Copy.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.favell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Arthur-Favell-Copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Favell 66909 Private Arthur Favell Royal FusiliersThe photo shows Arthur Favell with his wife Bertha and daughter Joan.\u00a0 Arthur was the son of Alfred and Rachael who were from Hemingford Grey in Huntingdonshire.\u00a0 Alfred was the brother of my Great x3 Grandfather.\u00a0 Rachael was a Titchmarsh, the same family in Hemingford Grey from which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1516","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1516\/revisions\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}