Arthur joined the Territorial Army [TA] on leaving Wrekin, was mobilised in August 1939 and deployed to France after war was declared. He was severely injured in his right arm during the Dunkirk retreat and the medical staff led him to believe that his fighting days were over.

However, the skill of the surgeons at the hospital in Oxford, coupled with his own sheer determination and perseverance allowed for a full recovery, thus passing his medical board in 1942. This allowed him to deploy with an anti-tank regiment, being one of the first to land in North Africa: he saw heavy fighting in the Western desert and into Tunisia.

Following on from the campaigns in North Africa the Regiment took part in the Allied invasion of Sicily, up the length of Italy during the Italian Campaign [where he was killed at the age of 25 on Tuesday 5^th October 1943], before finally arriving in Austria for the end of the war in Europe in May 1945. Arthur is one of two OWs to lie in the Sangro River War Cemetery, Torino di Sangro in Italy.

Elder son of Lt-Col. Arthur Hibbert, DSO, MC, JP, & Laura Hibbert of Millom, Cumberland.

A copy of Arthur's story is available for download here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’  relating to:-
Captain Arthur HIBBERT