Lt Arthur Langton Airy 3rd Battalion (attached to the 1st) Northamptonshire Regiment. Arthur was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion in April 1900 and gained his Lieutenancy in the November of that year, seeing service in South Africa with the 1st Battalion. He left the army in February 1903, but offered his services again upon the outbreak of the Great War, being granted a commission in the 3rd Battalion in October 1914.
After being attached, once again, to the 1st Battalion, he proceeded to France where, in the trenches east of Cuinchy he met his death on the night of 10 January* whilst his C Coy was in support of an attack conducted by 2/KRRC. He was aged 39 at the time of his death and he has no known grave. Arthur is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial to the Missing.
*Note. The CWGC (and ODGW) record his death as having occurred on the 11th January. However, recorded evidence points to the fact that he was, in fact dead by midnight of the 10th.
10 January 1915
Research by David O'Mara, Paths of Glory 1914-18.
