1st/4th Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Arthur Mace is on the left-hand end of the back row
Arthur Guy Mace was born at Kingham, Oxfordshire and attended Churchill Village School. He was awarded a scholarship to Burford Grammar School and on leaving school he joined the Midland Bank. He enlisted in the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in August 1914.
After serving on the Western Front, he went to Italy early 1918 and in March 1918 was a member of the Orderly Room Staff.
Lance Corporal Arthur Guy Mace was killed aged 33 in action at the Battle of Asiago during the Austrian attack on 15 June 1918. He is buried at Boscon British Cemetery on the Asiago Plateau and is commemorated on village war memorials in Kingham and Milton-under-Wychwood, where his parents were living in 1918.
He had three brothers who were all in the army on the Western Front and they all survived the war unscathed.