Private Arthur Francis Rheinheimer was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1892, in Lancaster, the son of German-born parents Peter, a boot laster by trade, and Mary Rheinheimer. At the time of the 1911 Census, Rheinheimer was apprenticing as a tailor while living with his family at 35 Gladstone Terrace.
Aged 26, Rheinheimer died on 28 March 1918, during the Battle of Arras, while serving on the Western Front with the 8th (Service) Battalion, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment).
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Arras Memorial.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Rheinheimer, Arthur Francis, cwgc.org. Retrieved 10 June 2015.