Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the youngest son of Thomas Humphrey and Rebecca Heward.
Arnold is also commemorated on the Bardon Chapel Memorial, Leicestershire.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday May 4th, 1917

Mr and Mrs T. Heward, of Ashby, formerly of Hugglescote, have received a letter from a chaplain notifying the death of their son, Acting-Bombardier A. S. Heward, of the R.F.A. who was killed at his gun. The deceased soldier would have been 29 years of age last Sunday. Before the war he was a clerk, and used to play full-back for the Coalville Town F.C.

Mr and Mrs Heward have received the following letter from the chaplain, “I am very sorry to tell you your son Acting Bombardier Heward, A.S. O/D/152 was killed yesterday (24th April) whilst doing his duty and standing at his post at the guns. Death was instantaneous, so he was spared any suffering. I buried him in the afternoon in one of the British Cemeteries. His grave will be well looked after. He will be sadly missed by all ranks, all his officers speak so highly of him. Please accept my very deepest sympathy in your great sorrow, and may God comfort and strengthen you and help you to bear the heavy cross He has laid upon you.”

Also, the following letter has been received from the deceased’s officer, Lieut. H. W. Palfreyman, “It is with deepest regret that I have to inform you that your son, Bomb. A. S. Heward was killed in action yesterday morning. While serving his gun he was struck by a splinter of a shell and was killed instantaneously. He was buried by the Divisional Chaplain in the British Cemetery here in the presence of an officer and several of his comrades. Your son was a fine example of a soldier, and was one of the most popular men in the Battery, and his loss will be keenly felt by us all. If it can be some slight consolation to you in your great loss, I can assure you of the sincerest sympathy of every officer and man in the Battery.”

IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of Arnold Spencer, the beloved youngest son of T. H. and R. Heward, died “at his post, doing his duty”, somewhere in France, on Tuesday, April 24th, 1917, aged 28.

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 19/10/2017