Arthur Field was born to George and Ellen Field (nee Greenfield) on 17th February 1889, being the fifth born of 10 children namely Alice, George, Ellen, Ernest, Arthur, Charlotte, Owen, Lilian, Archie and Violet.     

 He married Kathleen Emily (nee Edmunds) on 20th November 1915 at St Margarets Church, Angmerering.   He died on 19th May 1978 in Worthing Hospital and was buried in St Margarets church on 25th May 1978.

They had 4 children being Kathleen, Edith (my Grandmother), Harry and Martha.  The only survivor being Martha. Arthur Field and his siblings all lived in Bakers Row, Angmering.  Bakers Row is a tiny little short street that runs from the church to the village centre and may also be the Church Road you mentioned.

I knew Arthur and Kathleen (my great Nanny and great Grandad) and all their children very very well.  Martha is still alive and well and won't mind being mentioned on the website.  Of interest, maybe, Edith, my maternal grandmother married Rene Verreault during WW2.  He was French Canadian and was in England with the Royal 22nd Canadian Regiment (the Vandoos) and that is partly why I now live in Canada...........

The MM and other medals were given by great grandad to the kids to play with and are long lost.  He spoke little of the war and physically only suffered a small scar on the back of one hand.  Him and nanny were responsible for bringing up my mum as Edith died very early and Rene was away and more or less cast out by the family (he spoke poor English being French Canadian) and was treated as a foreigner!  Strange times indeed.  Mum mentioned the scar to grandad and he just said he got it in the war.  He would tell me that he rode a horse and carried a sword.  He did tell my Uncle Harry (who was married to his daughter Kathleen) that he got his MM for capturing a machine gun nest and 5 Germans but that he only did so because they had run out of ammunition.  This was after Harry had returned from North Africa in WW2.  I guess he felt safe discussing a little of the war with another soldier?  After reading a little of his regiment, God only knows what he saw and suffered.  Mum said he would sometimes be seen staring into space with his mind far away.  After the war he was employed as a road sweeper.  He was a kind and gentle man and I've never heard him spoken ill of.

So.........for me two mysteries remain, what did he get his MM for and why the picture of him on the horse and his story of horse and sword to me.  I have attached the picture of him and maybe you might know someone who could identify the uniform or markings.  Would soldiers have hopped onto a horse to have a photo taken?  It is obviously him that you have serving with the Royal West Kents and his prior regiment of the Sussex (joined at Rousillion barracks, Chichester).