Private Arnold Oliver,154079
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 19th Bn
Private 48588, Lancashire Fusiliers
Private 28003, Manchester Regiment.
Killed 20th September 1918
Age 19

Arnold was the son of Annie Oliver, of 42, Pembroke St., Oldham, and the late Edwin Oliver.

Edwin Oliver had been born in Dukinfield and married his second wife, Annie Lowe, in 1898. Arnold was born the following year, in Gorton, and in 1903 they had a daughter, Mary Ellen.
Edwin died in 1909.
On the 1901 census the family was living on Toxteth Street in Gorton.
By the 1911 census, Annie had been widowed and was living in Barrow-in-Furness with her young daughter and Arnold was in the National Children's Home at Edgworth, Near Bolton.

CWGC

More of Arnold's story can also be found in 'Servicemen We Know'