Mexborough and Swinton Times June 16, 1917

Corporal Arthur Walters
Scottish Rifles

Son of Mr and Mrs Willis Walters, 25 Victoria St, Wath Road, Swinton, has been wounded a second time, and is now in hospital in France.

He enlisted in June 1915, been previously employed as a miner at Manvers Main. He went to France in November 1915 and was wounded almost immediately in the right hand, been invalided to England.

He returned to the firing line in July 1916, and was wounded on May 27, 1917 (Whit Sunday) in some very fierce fighting. He had just reached the German trenches when he was struck by splinters of shrapnel received two severe wounds in the back and a slight wound in the neck..

Curiously enough, the first man to rendering aid was a near neighbour and friend, Sgt William Bramhill, M.M.(R.A.M.C.) of 8 Victoria St, Wath Road, Swinton.

In a letter written home on Whit Monday, Cpl Walters mentions this and speaks gratefully of the kind attention he received from Sgt Bramhill.

Corporal Walters is 24 and single.