Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Samuel and Minnie Quilter. The War Diary for today records. LE VERGUIER. Battalion relieved by 2nd/4th LEICESTERSHIRE REGT and withdrawn into old German line in L.27B. HQ not moved.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday May 18th, 1917

News has been received in a letter from a chaplain who conducted the funeral that Lance-Corporal Arthur E. Quilter, of the Leicestershire Regiment, son of Mr Samuel Quilter, of Battram, has died from wounds, having been shot in the thigh by a sniper. He was 23 years of age, and before the war worked at the Nailstone Colliery, where his father is employed as a deputy. He is an old scholar of Mr Hume’s and the first Battram Council School boy to be killed in the war.

Coalville Times article - Friday May 25th, 1917

THANKS

Mr and Mrs Samuel Quilter, of Battram Road, Ellistown desire to thank most sincerely many friends for kind expressions of sympathy extended to them on the occasion of the death of their son, Corporal A. E. Quilter, Leicestershire Regiment, who died of wounds received in action in France on May 2nd, 1917.

Coalville Times article - Friday May 14th, 1920

BATTRAM

WAR MEMORIAL

In the presence of a large number of members of the Fitzwilliam Hall Sick and Dividend Club held at the Neville Arms, Battram, Mr E. Webster, under-manager of the Nailstone Colliery, unveiled an oil painting to the memory of the following members of the Lodge, who died whilst serving their country during the war:

Privates W. O. Hoden, A. Price, A. Quilter, John W. Partner, H. Partner and S. W. Richards. These names were beautifully written on the memorial, which is framed in oak, and hung in the Lodge Room. A bugler of Ibstock Prize Band sounded the Last Post and the Band gave a selection of suitable pieces.

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