Arthur WHITING

Private 23546461, Arthur WHITING, Staffordshire Regiment Born on the 12th February 1940 Drowned in a boating accident on Naivash Lake, Nakuru County, Kenya, while off duty with two of his friends 21st October 1962 aged 22. He had not long been married and his wife was getting ready to join him. Her clothing etc had already been sent to him. No record was found as the outcome of friends.

Photograph credited to Find a Grave.

At rest in Nairobi War Cemetery, Kenya. Plot 2 Row J Grave 8

He is commemorated on a memorial plaque along with his father at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire.

My father, Major James Wood, served with the Staffords and Arthur was his Batman. My mother recently told me of this tragic accident when I was showing her a picture of our family fishing at Lake Naivasha. (I recently scanned hundreds of slides of our posting in Kenya and Aden many I had never seen.) We were posted to Kenya and my mother said Arthur was a very nice young lad and she was very shocked and saddened when he died.