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Private Arthur Stanley SCATES (17690)
2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards Date of birth: 1st April 1891 Date of death: 19th November 1916 Died of wounds aged 25 Buried at Grove Town Cemetery, Meulte Plot II Row K Grave 34
Arthur Stanley Scates was born at Chippenham in Cambridgeshire on the 1st of April 1891 the son of William Scates, a gardener, and Harriett (nee Orris) Scates of Meadow Croft Cottage, Old Chesterton in Cambridgeshire. He worked as a baker at Lancing College and tried to join up as soon as war broke out but was persuaded not to by the College. He eventually enlisted in to the army at Hove. At 4pm on the 15th of November 1916 the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards paraded in camp at Montauban on the Somme before relieving the 3rd Battalion of their regiment in trenches near Les Boeufs. They were themselves relieved at 2am on the morning of the 19th of November when they returned to Mansell Camp. During this tour of the front line the battalion had suffered casualties of three officers wounded with three other ranks killed and twenty other ranks wounded. It is most likely that Arthur Scates was among the wounded and later died of his wounds. He is commemorated on the war memorial at Trumpington in Cambridgeshire.

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