After entering the service, Earl was assigned to I Company 116th Infantry. He was with the unit when it sailed for France aboard the USS Finland in June 1918. PFC Airhart was killed in action on 24 Oct 1918.
PFC Airhart was repatriated and now rests in the New Monmouth Presbyterian Cemetery in Lexington, Virginia. Earl's older brother Graham Lackey Airhart served in the American Expeditionary Force in the 215th Company 106th Battalion Military Police Corps. His paternal grandfather, Abraham Airhart, served as a CPT commanding D Company 52nd Virginia Regiment and killed in action at Spotsylvania Courthouse on 12 May 1864.
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