2nd Lieutenant Arthur Brickwood, 18 and from Grayshott, was serving with 1st Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment. He died on 15 April 1915, and is buried in Grayshott, Hampshire.
On 19 April 1915 The Guardian reported “Lieutenant A. C. Brickwood, York and Lancaster Regiment, son of Sir John Brickwood of Portsmouth, died in hospital at Boulogne on Thursday night. He was taken ill a few days ago at the front, where he had been fighting in the trenches for some time.”
Arthur Brickwood was the son of Sir John Brickwood, the founder and owner of Brickwoods Brewery in Portsmouth. Sir John was also one of the founding directors of Portsmouth Football Club, and its first Chairman. He was also a friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sir John’s father Henry was the landlord of the White Hart in the Queen Street in Portsea. In 1874 John inherited a growing brewing business. By 1887 Brickwoods were the largest Brewers in Portsmouth, through expansion and buying other businesses. They were also the biggest pub owners in the town. Athur Cyril was born in 1896, John’s first child with his second wife Jessie. John was knighted in 1904, and made a Lord in 1927.
Arthur Brickwood’s half-brother Basil married one of Flying Officer Roy Cooper’s sisters
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