Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the husband of Florence Peacey Parkinson.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Arthur, the third child of William Henry and his wife Mercy, was born in Hallaton in early 1888, whilst his father a signal man was working here briefly for the London & North Western Railway. Employees of the railway were moved around as need arose and they were not here long because by the time of the 1891 census with Arthur still only three, the family were living in Hardingstone a village immediately to the south of Northampton town. By 1901 the family had moved again to Dallington, north west of the town. Arthur, now 13 and having left school the previous year was working in the boot and shoe trade, which was the predominant trade. In 1910 Arthur’s father died and Arthur had changed his job and was now employed in a corn, flour and cake merchants as a clerk. In the autumn of 1911, he married a Florence Peacey Butlin and on 9th July 1912 a son, Charles Ernest was born. Arthur’s military records were among those lost in WW2, but based on the records still existing of other men with service numbers close to his, he was enlisted in the second week of December 1915 in 4th Reserve Battalion, East Surrey Regiment with service number 33070, then transferred to 1st Battalion. We do not know when he went to France. The entry in the War Office ledgers dealing with dead soldier’s effects, gives the date of death as 24th June 1916. However the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s (CWGC) certificate states that he died on 6th October 1917 – a difference of 15 months! On an official War Office list published 29th November 1917, he was reported as missing along with about 30 other men from the East Surrey Regiment. These reports usually took about four weeks to emerge after the event so the CWGC date is the more likely. It is backed up by the War Diary which states that on 6th October 1917 the Battalion was in the thick of it just south of Polygon Wood, having just come through the horror of the Third Battle of Ypres (26th September – 3rd October). The weather was atrocious. It also reports that shell-fire remained persistent if not heavy but added to the list of casualties. The evidence thus now seems to point to the later date. The further clue is that he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing of the Third Battle of Ypres. If he had been killed on the earlier date he would have been commemorated on the Arras Memorial. We will possibly never know the truth. Whatever the date, Florence Peacey now joined that great band of widows and little Charles was fatherless. His name was added to the Hallaton War Memorial in 2008.

Information kindly provided by Dennis Kenyon.