His birth:

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Births Mar 1875   (>99%)
Temple Arthur Hilliard W Medway 2a 463

From the 1881 census, it looks as if his parents were Rev Robert C and Katherine F S Temple.  Rev Robert was Rector of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk.  Arthur W H was then recorded as being born in Borstal Rochester Kent and was the second son.

In 1891 he was a scholar and still with his parents at Thorpe Morieux.

In 1901 he could not be found in any English and Welsh census.  Abroad?
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In 1911 he was a captain with the 2nd Suffolk Battalion:

Name Relation Condition/ Yrs married Sex Age Birth Year  Occupation  Where Born

TEMPLE, Arthur Married ? 36 1875 Kent Rochester

RG number: RG14 Piece: 3122 Reference: RG14PN3122 RD34 SD2 ED13 SN9999

Registration District: Farnham
Sub District: Aldershot
EnumerationDistrict: 13
Parish: Aldershot

Address: Stanhope Lines Aldershot
County: Surrey
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He died at Ypres in WW1:

Name: TEMPLE, ARTHUR HILLIARD WILLIAMS
Initials: A H W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Suffolk Regiment
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 39
Date of Death: 14/12/1914
Additional information: Son of the Rev. Robert and Mrs. Temple; husband of Enid Powys Temple, of Albert Lodge, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 21.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
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The King’s School, Canterbury has this notice of him on their web-site:

Captain Arthur Hilliard Williams TEMPLE
A Company, 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment

Date of birth: 12th January 1875
Date of death: 14th December 1914

Killed in action aged 39
Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial Panel 21
He was born in Rochester on the 12th of January 1875, the second son of the Reverend Robert Charles Temple OKS, Rector of Thorpe Morieux, and Mrs Temple, later of Albert Lodge, Shanklin on the Isle of Wight.

He was educated at Junior King's Canterbury from January 1885 to December 1888, going on to complete his education at the King's School, Ely.

He married in Enid Powys (nee Stone) from Merstone on the Isle of Wight in October 1909 and they went to live in Shalfleet in Hampshire.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Militia) on the 17th of March 1894 and received his regular commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment on the 1st of December 1897, being promoted to Lieutenant on the 7th of January 1900.

He saw action in the South African War in which he was employed in the mounted infantry and was present at operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, including action at Colesberg. He received the Queen's Medal with three clasps and the King's medal with two clasps.

After the Boer War he was seconded for service in Somaliland with the King's African Rifles. He was a fine shot and collected many trophies during his time in Africa. He was promoted to Captain on the 8th of April 1905 and retired from the active list with that rank, joining the reserve of officers on the 19th of February 1913.

On the 5th of August 1914 he reported for war service at the depot of his old regiment in Bury St Edmunds and was initially placed in the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion.

On the 9th of August the battalion marched to the railway station an entrained for Felixstowe where they were to be serving in a home defence role. They spent a period there practicing the digging of trenches, going on route marches and practicing musketry. Captain Temple was in command of the sea defence section in which role he helped rescue the crew of an aeroplane which came down about a mile offshore. He was attached to the 2nd Battalion as a replacement and sent to France, with a group of other officers at the end of August.

On the 14th of December 1914 the battalion were in support of a successful attack on Petit Bois. At 4.30pm they moved forward and relieved the 2nd Royal Scots in the captured trench and it was here, twenty minutes after the relief that Captain Temple was shot through the head, falling into the arms of Private R.G. Girbow who was himself shot and killed in the same place the following day.

A private soldier of his battalion wrote the following to Captain Temple's sister on his death:-

"It was in the trenches that we lost our beloved Captain - Captain Temple. He was loved and respected by all, those who served with him in South Africa and in this campaign. The kindness he showed our company when they came from the trenches, sodden wet through, giving us new socks and other articles of clothing which his wife had sent out to him for his company, we shall never forget. I have seen him when meeting refugees put his hand in his pocket and assist them. No one knew what he gave. He did not believe in show.
A shell burst in the trenches in which I was lying, and the Captain came up and enquired if anyone was hurt. His cheery remarks always gave us inspiration, and when word was passed round that he was wounded, and subsequently that he had died, there was grief among all-officers and men. He was fearless, brave and self-sacrificing under all condition, and was never satisfied until he had done his very best for all. He will be missed by all who came in contact with him."

He was mentioned in Sir John French's despatches of the 14th of January 1915.

He is commemorated on the memorial at the King's School, Ely, and in the parish church at Shalfleet in Hampshire where he was a church warden.
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