Arthur Douglas Reginald Bacchus

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Arthur Douglas Reginald Bacchus was born in Ramsgate, Kent, on 7 Jan 1887 and baptised in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, on 10 Apr 1887 the son of Charles Edmund Bacchus and Annie Charlotte Bacchus (nee Wadsworth).  He lived some of his early life in Ramsgate until by 1901 the family had moved to 'Rothays', Milford, Salisbury, Wiltshire.  His mother had died in 1912. Arthur had received some of his education at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset.  He married Pauline Giles in Exeter, Devonshire, on 8 Oct 1913 and they went on to have two children. He had possibly been a Territorial member of the Household Brigade prior to WW1 (Service No. 1529) but was embodied on 26 Nov 1915 as a Trooper in the Guards Machine Gun Regiment (Service No. 2282).  He served in France & Flanders but was taken prisoner at Arras, France, on 3 May 1917 and spent time in a POW Camp in Germany.  It is presumed he had received wounds at the time of his capture as it later transpired he had received an injury to his face and right foot.  He had also contacted tuberculosis and was discharged on due to his physical condition on 3 Jan 1919 and awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the Silver War Badge No. B208056.    Regrettably he died at 29 Abbotsford Road, Redlands, Bristol, on 17 May 1924 (where he had been registered in the 1921 Census described as a Bank Clerk with the National Provincial & Union Bank) and was brought to Wimborne Minster, Dorset, for burial on 21 May 1924. The report of his funeral in the Wimborne press made much of the fact that he died as a result of his war wounds albeit seven years after the cause.