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from "The Times" newspaper (U.K.), Saturday, October 7, 1916 page 3, posted under "list of casualties", 1st column, 2nd entry...
"Captain Arthur Edwin Cheesman, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), of Lissinghurst Castle, Cranbrook, Kent, was the second son of the late Captain E.T. Cheesman, A.V.D., and Mrs. Cheesman, of Horley, Surrey. He was educated at Wellington College, and after leaving school took up agriculture. He was gazetted to the Buffs in 1910, and received his captaincy three years later. He went to India with his regiment in October, 1914, and proceeded with the first relief column to Kut. He led his company into action at the battle of Shaik Saad on January 7, when five bullets and pieces of shrapnel passed through his helmet and clothing, but he remained unwounded. A few days later he contracted dysentery and was invalided to India. He went to the front again in the spring, but was taken ill with enteric fever, and died on September 26, aged 38. Captain Cheesman was a good shot, and he was well known to followers of the Mid Kent Stag Hounds."
(*I am not related...just sharing information from very old, disintegrating "The Times" newspapers I inherited)
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