WO1 Arthur Royce Cuckson joined the 7th (Robn Hood Rifles) Battalion The Sherwood Foresters  many years before the Great War and was awarded the Territorial Efficiency Medal in 1909 being awarded the clasp in 1920 as a Warrant Officer. He had an earlier number of 281 and landed in France on the 28th February 1915 as the QMS. During this time, he served with both H and F Companies and was discharged on the 17th February 1919. 

Arthur was the son of Lieutenant Edmund Arthur Cuckson of the Robin Hood Rifles.