• Casualty list, 4th Bn. The Dorsetshire Regiment, Operation Market Garden

Date of birth:

May 30th, 1914

Date of death:

September 26th, 1944 (Apeldoorn/Gelderland, The Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Arnhem Oosterbeek
Plot: 24. Row: B. Grave: 7.

Service number:

3659555

Nationality:

British (1801-present, Kingdom)

Rank held during Operation Market Garden:
Corporal

MISSING 25.9.1944, DOW 26.9.1944

Arthur Schofield was born on 30 May 1914. According to the 1939 Register his occupation was a day-school caretaker and he lived together with his wife Margaret Moffat Schofield (maiden name Mortimer), which he married the previous year, on 129 Roseberry Street, Manchester, Lancashire.

In order to make the evacuation of the remnants of the 1st Airborne Division possible, the 4th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment was ordered to cross the Lower-Rhine at the Westerbouwing Heights, just west of Oosterbeek, on the night of 24/25 September 1944. Corporal Arthur Schofield was initially reported missing on 25 September 1944.

According to the "Nominal roll of the wounded" he was brought to the Willem III-barracks in Apeldoorn as a Prisoner of War. Here, he died of his wounds (DOW) at St. Joseph Psychiatric Hospital at Apeldoorn on 26 September 1944 and was buried in the adjacent cemetery, grave 13. According to the Graves Registration Report Form of 37 Graves Registration Unit, he was reburied at the Commonwealth War Cemetery Arnhem Oosterbeek on 2 October 1945.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, of Manchester; husband of Margaret Moffat Schofield, of Ardwick, Manchester.

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• - British Army casualty lists - Other Ranks 1577(27), 1679(12), 1713(30)
  - CWGC Casualty details
  - ‘"Roll of Honour" Battle of Arnhem September 1944’ 5th revised edition 2011, compiled by J A Hey
  - ‘Nominal roll of the wounded' compiled by Peter H Starling (1998)
  - 1939 Register
  - England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
  

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