Private Arthur Bailey Aitken
PERSONAL INFORMATION
MILITARY INFORMATION
Private, 15th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
RESEARCH INFORMATION
One year prior service with 7th Regiment, London Fusiliers. Son of John and Eliza Aitken, of 170, Bruce St., London, Ontario.
Brother Private Herman Aitken, reg. no. 112168 killed in action May 9, 1917.
News Articles. Undated but Circa October 1918 and probably from the London Free Press.
BROTHERS GIVE LIVES FOR EMPIRE
Pte. Arthur Bailey Aitken, on the left, son of Fire Chief John Aitken, to-day reported to have been killed in action on September 27 [1918], and his brother, Corp. Herman Aitken, who made the supreme sacrifice on May 9, 1917. while serving with the 18th Battalion. Pte. Arthur Aitken was with the 15th Battalion when he met his death. He enlisted in the 241st Scottish Borderers before he was 18 years old and was wounded on a zepplin raid on their camp in Folkestone, England. He was transferred to another unit on recovering.
WAS KILLED INSTANTLY. - Fire Chief John Aitken to-day received advices from Ottawa to the effect that his youngest son, Pte. A.B. Aitken, who was killed in France on September 27, 1918, died instantly from an enemy machine gun bullet while employed as a Lewis gunner with his battalion.