Today we remember …
|28th July 1917
Arthur O’Beirne, G Social 1901. Lt, 57th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Killed in action in aerial fighting over Houthulst Forest, Flanders
At school, he played for the Cricket XI. He then went to Exeter College, Oxford. He was in India from 1909-1914. He served with the East African Mounted Rifles, 1914-15, then with the Oxford Light Hussars in 1915, before joining the Royal Flying Corps.
When war broke out he had just arrived in British East Africa, and immediately enlisted as a trooper in the East African Mounted Rifles. After nine months’ fighting he was invalided home, and was then offered a commission in the Oxfordshire Yeomany. In December, 1916, he joined the R.F.C., and after obtaining his pilot’s certificate was for some time in England. He went to the front last July, and died of wounds received in action on the 28th of that month. His only brother, Lieutenant John I. M. O’Beirne, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, attached R.F.C., was killed at the front last April.