Name
Arthur Langton Airy
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/01/1915
39
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Northamptonshire Regiment
3rd Bn., attached 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 28 to 30.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bushey memorials,
Aldeburgh Lodge School Memorial Tablet, Suffolk
Pre War
Son of Dr. Hubert Airy, late of Stoke House, Woodbridge, Suffolk; husband of Grace Airy, of 103A, Gloucester Rd., South Kensington, London.
He joined the army with the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1900, but retired with the rank of Lieutenant on the death of his father in 1903.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of the First World War he re-enlisted in the Northampton Regiment with his previous rank of Lieutenant.
He was named as a Herkomer student in the Bushey Parish Magazine, alongside other war casualties.
Additional Information
Information provided with the kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
