Lieutenant Arthur McLaughlin

Regiment: 3rd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles
Attached: 1st Batt. Royal Irish Rifles
Panel reference: Panel 9.
Date published: 28/01/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 09/05/1916
Age at death: 20
Cemetery: Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Information: Lieutenant Arthur McLaughlin, 3rd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles (attached 1st Batt.), was a son of Mr. W. H. McLaughlin, D.L., Macedon, Whitehouse, Co. Antrim. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and when be left the school about a year before his death he was head prefect, captain of the football team, and captain and “stroke” of the boat in the rowing club. When war broke out he immediately offered his services and obtained a commission in the 3rd R.I.R., in which battalion his brother, Major McLaughlin, was serving. He went to the front in March, 1915, and was killed on the 9th of May at Fromelles whilst leading his men against the German trenches. His last words were: “I'm all right; lead on, lead on”. He died shortly afterwards.