Arthur Tryweryn's Story.
West Kirby Lieut. Killed
The death has occurred from wounds received in action off Lieutenant Arthur T. Apsimon, R.W.F., son of Mr and Mrs T. Apsimon of West Kirby. Lieutenant A. T. Apsimon, who was 34 years of age, enlisted at the outbreak of war in the London Irish Rifles, and shortly afterwards received a Commission in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and went to France in 1915. He was wounded on the 2nd of August and died two days later at a dressing station. In a letter to his parents Major Wynn P. Wheldon narrated how Lieutenant Apsimon with his signallers and runners help to hold the new front won by the Welsh division, and how the next day he fell victim to a shell. “He was,” continues to major “the most lovable man who never spoke or thought unkindly of others, and of whom no one could speak or think except with affection. His serene and quiet courage gave his men confidence. I will miss him personally more than any officer I have known. His quiet humour, gentle nature, under sturdiness off view of his views weather of much comfort to me.”
Birkenhead News, Saturday, August 18, 1917.
The Chester Chronicle confirmed that he had been buried at Bard Cottage Cemetery by Rev. D. M. Jones