SPIERS, Arthur Henry

Arthur Spiers was married and living at 28 Bull Street, Silver End, Brierley Hill in 1914. He volunteered for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served in Anson Battalion of the Royal Naval Division. They had fought widely before 1918 - at Gallipoli from landing to evacuation, on the Somme and in 1917 at Passchendaele and Cambrai. Early in 1918 they were at the Hindenburg Line near Cambrai and waiting for the expected German offensive. It came on the 21st March and the British forces had little alternative but to retreat. Losses were serious on the 23rd and Able Seaman Arthur Spiers was among them. He is buried in Grevillers Cemetery (XII E 2) and commemorated on the Brierley Hill Memorial.