Norman Fairlie was aged 22 when he disappeared in action near Ploegsteert Wood in Flanders. The Radleian magazine lists him among the prisoners or wounded in November 1914, amended to ‘missing’, now ‘wounded’ in December, and still among the missing in April 1916.

The date of his death is the last known sighting of him alive. He has no known grave and his family did not send a photograph for the War Memorial albums.