L-Cpl Groom Argus Newspaper

Died 9th March 1917

Aged 25

Commemorated at Grove Town Cemetery Meaulte
Grave IV.C.7

Two Deaths from Wounds

Acting Corpl. Arthur H. Groom, Rifle Brigade (son of the late Mr. Charles Groom, of Raunds), who was last week reported seriously wounded, died of wounds on March 9th. Deceased was formerly employed as clerk by the Raunds Co-operative Society.

Pte. John B. Higby, Bedfordshire Regt., another Raunds soldier, and a chum of the late Acting-Corpl. A. R. Groom, has died of wounds in hospital in France.

Private Higby and Acting-Corpl. Groom enlisted last May in the Beds. Regt., and went out to France within a day or two of each other last September, and both have died from wounds within a few days. They were engaged to sisters, the Misses Barnes of Woodford.