Springfield, AL
(1891 - 1917)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
13th August 1891
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1904 - 1908
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
15 Lambert Road, Brixton
REGIMENT
3rd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
9th April 1917
AGE AT DEATH:
25
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Arras
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Tigris Lane Cemetery, Wancourt. I B 7
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Lincoln Springfield
Arthur was born on August 13th 1891, the eldest child of Elizabeth Springfield and her husband, Lincoln, a journalist who would later edit the London Opinion, a weekly magazine. He joined the College in the summer of 1904 and was at Dulwich for the next four and a half years. Sometime after he left, at the end of 1908, he went over to Newfoundland where he learnt the process of paper making whilst employed at Lord Northcliffe’s paper mills.
When war was declared Arthur was back in England and almost at once volunteered as a member of the Honourable Artillery Company. He went over to the front shortly afterwards but, after being wounded in June 1915, he returned to England to go to Sandhurst. He passed out of Sandhurst in April 1916, taking up a commission in the Somerset Light Infantry with whom he returned to France that October. Shortly afterwards he was appointed Battalion Bombing Officer and it was whilst serving in this capacity that he was killed, not far from Arras, on Easter Monday 1917.
