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Rfmn. Edwin John Horrill
British Army 16th (Queens Westminster Rifles) Battalion London Regiment
from:13 Oak Park, Liskeard, Cornwall
(d.19th Sep 1916)
Edwin John Horrill was my mother's half brother. His mother was Annie Snell. When my grandparents died we found the items relating to Edwin which I have photographed. He was born on 13th October 1896 in Menheniot, Cornwall, England and died on the 19th of September 1916 in France. He is buried in Combles Communal Cemetery and Extension, Guards´ Cemetery, in Combles.
Jack Horrocks
British Army 6th Garrison Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
I found a New Testament 1916 issue with Jack Horrock's name and Battalion written in the front and 'Egypt Feb 10th 1917'
Rflmn Edwin Horrod
British Army City of London Yeomanry
Sgt. J. Horsburgh
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Sgt Horsburgh of the 9th Royal Scots won the all ranks relay race, while he served in France 1917.
Pte. Frederick Horseman
British Army West Yorkshire Regiment
from:26 Brighton Rd. Darlington
2nd Lt. Basil Arthur Horsfall VC.
British Army 1st Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Ceylon
(d.27th Mar 1918)
Second Lieutenant Basil Arthur Horsfall was born on 4 October 1887 in Colombo, Ceylon. He left a position with Barclay's Bank, London, to become a rubber planter back in Ceylon, where he also held a civil service position with the Public Works Department and served with the Ceylon Engineers. During the Great War, he served as 2nd Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, attached to the 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. The citation to his VC reads:
"On the 21st March 1918 between Moyenneville and Ablainzevelle, France, the enemy attacked Second Lieutenant Horsfall's centre platoon, his three forward sections were driven back and he was wounded in the head by enemy fire. Ignoring the wound, he immediately reorganised what remained of his troops and counter attacked to regain his original position. Despite the severity of his head wound, he refused to go to the dressing station, as the three other officers in his company had been killed. Later, he made another counter attack, but was ordered to withdraw. The last to leave his position, he was shot soon afterwards."
2nd Lt. Basil Arthur Horsfall VC
British Army 1st Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Ceylon
(d.27th March 1918)
Basil Horsfall was killed in action on the 27th of March 1918, aged 30. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France.
Son of the late Charles William Horsfall, of Darlington, Polwatta, Colombo, and of Maria Henrietta Horsfall (nee Layard), of Florence, Kandy, Ceylon. He was born at Kelvin Gerve, Colombo; educated at St. Thomas's College, Colombo and Sir William Borlase School, Great Marlow, England. From Barclay's Bank, London, he took up Rubber planting in Ceylon and was appointed Financial Assistant to the Public Works Department of the Civil Service of Ceylon. Basil qualified in signalling and search light in the Ceylon Engineer Volunteers.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 22nd May, 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty. 2nd Lt. Horsfall was in command of the centre platoon during an attack on our positions. When the enemy first attacked, his three forward sections were driven back and he was wounded in the head. Nevertheless, he immediately organised the remainder of his men and made a counter-attack, which recovered his original positions. On hearing that out of the remaining three officers of his company two were killed and one wounded, he refused to go to the dressing room, although his wound was severe. Later his platoon had to be withdrawn to escape very heavy shell fire, but immediately the shelling lifted he made a second counter-attack and again recovered his positions. When the order to withdraw was given, he was the last to leave his position, and, although exhausted, said he could have held on if it had been necessary. HIs conduct was a splendid example to his men, and he showed throughout the utmost disregard of danger. This very gallant officer was killed when retiring to the positions in rear."
Pte Harry Horsfall
British Army
from:Widnes
Pte. Lewis John Horsfield
British Army 9th Btn Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Littleborough
(d.26th September 1916)
Pte. William Horsfield
British Army 1/5th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Burnley, Lancs.
(d.4th Nov 1915)
William Horsfield died of Dysentry on 4th November 1915, aged 25 and is buried in Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. he was the son of Henry and Margaret Horsfield, of 84, Mitella St., Burnley.
Pte. William Horsfield
British Army 1/5th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Burnley, Lancs.
(d.4th Nov 1915)
William Horsfield died of dysentry aged 25 and is buried in the Pieta Military Cemetery in Malta. He was the son of Henry and Margaret Horsfield, of 84, Mitella Street, Burnley.
Lt. Thomas Edward O'Bryen Horsford
British Army 2nd Btn West Yorkshire Regiment
(d.13th March 1915)
Lt Thomas O'Bryen Horsford was born in 1892. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School between 1902 and 1907. He entered Sandhurst in 1912 and was gazetted to the West Yorkshire Regiment in February 1914. He was wounded in December and spent some time home on sick leave. Returning to the front, he was severely wounded during the battle of Neuve Chapelle and died on March 13th.
Pte. Joseph William Horsley
British Army 9th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment
from:West Bromwich, Spon Lane
(d.2 Sep 1918)
Joseph William Horsley born 1889 West Bromwich, Staffordshire married Emma Care in 1911 and had a daughter in 1913 named Annie Horsley. I've just found out that the year that he lost his life 1918 his wife was carrying his unborn son. She gave birth in September, the month that he was killed, and named him Joseph after his father. But, unfortunately, the baby didn't survive and died that same year. So, not only did she have to endure loosing her husband but also her son.
I don't know much about Great Uncle Joseph and I've never seen a photo of him. I would love it if I could see one of him.
Sergeant Samuel Beecher Horsman
British Army 21st Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Scarborough
(d.7th Aug 1917)
Taken from ‘Neath a Foreign sky’ by Paul Allen –
After the battle of Flers the Yeoman Rifles had lost the identity that it had gone into battle with on the 15th September, the replacements for the men lost in the action coming predominately from the London area. Despite its change in character the Yeoman Rifles had soldiered on, and during 1917 had taken part in the Third Battle of Ypres. Perhaps better known simply as ‘Passchendale’, ‘Third Wipers’ had opened on Tuesday the 31st of July 1917 with the so called Battle of Pilckem Ridge, however, during these operations the Yeoman Rifles had played little part, nevertheless, by Saturday the 4th of August the Battalion had been stationed in trenches near to the village of Hollebeke, where during that day the Germans had mounted a ferocious counterattack which, despite suffering heavy casualties, the Yeoman Rifles had managed to beat off. During the following day the Germans had continued their assault a by mounting another two counterattacks which had also been driven out. However, severely weakened by this time, the Yeoman Rifle had been unable to stem a third assault which had eventually seen the Germans getting a foothold in the by then shattered village of Hollebeke.
During these attacks the Yeoman Rifles had suffered many casualties including a Scarborough born ‘Yeoman’ who had been hit in the face by a splinter of enemy shell. This deadly piece of shrapnel had lodged in the soldier’s brain, and despite being evacuated to a Base Hospital at Boulogne the Scarborian had succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday the 7th of August 1917.
Born in Falsgrave during 1887 at No.50 West Bank; C/12137 Sergeant Samuel Beecher Horsman had been the sixth of seven children of Sarah [formally Bilham] and ‘clerk’ Enos Horsman. A pupil of Falsgrave’s Council School, during 1901 the outstandingly bright Samuel Horsman had graduated to Scarborough’s prestigious Municipal School and had remained at ‘The Muni’ until 1905. Having chosen to lead a career in teaching, Horsman had subsequently become an assistant teacher at Scarborough’s Central School for boys. Located in Trafalgar Street West, Horsman had remained at the Central between 1906 and 1907, when he had duly left town to undergo teacher training at York’s St. John’s College. In 1909 Samuel was captain of the first eleven as cricket. Graduating as a fully-fledged teacher during 1909, Horsman had returned to Scarborough to teach at his old Falsgrave School, where he had reportedly especially excelled as a teacher in sports activities.
Along with elder brother Enos, Sam Horsman had also built an enviable reputation as a player with Scarborough’s football team before the war, during the season of 1911-12 Samuel had appeared on forty occasions for the club, thus scoring the highest attendance record of any ‘Boro’ player that year. However, with the coming of hostilities sport had been put aside and the two Horsman brothers had prepared for war.
At the outbreak of war Samuel Horsman had been residing with his widowed mother in ‘The Garlands’, a house located in Seamer Road. Enlisting into the Yeoman Rifles at Scarborough on the 4th of November 1915, Horsman had duly joined the Battalion at Duncombe Park, Helmsley, five days later. With his advanced education it had been obvious that Horsman had been Non Commissioned Officer, if not Officer material, and had soon been promoted to the rank of Corporal and shortly to that of Sergeant.
Taken ill with ‘trench fever’ shortly after the Battle of Flers, Sam Horsman had eventually been evacuated to ‘Blighty’ for treatment and had thus had the fortune to miss most of the horrors that had been experienced by the remainder of the Yeoman Rifles during the winter of 1916/17. However, pronounced fit for duty by May 1917, Horsman had duly returned to war and had rejoined the battalion in Flanders, where the unit had shortly [June 1917] taken part in the Battle of Messines and eventually the start of ‘Third Wipers’
Following the demise of one of Scarborough Football Club’s most respected players at No.13 General Hospital, the remains of Sergeant Horsman had been interred in a large civilian burial ground located in Boulogne’s ‘St. Martin Boulogne’ district just beyond the eastern [Chateau] corner of the Citadel [Haute Ville] known as ‘Boulogne Eastern Cemetery’. Amongst over five thousand casualties that had been interred in this Cemetery during the Great War, the former school teacher’s final resting place is located in Section 4, Row A, Grave 57.
In addition to being commemorated on Scarborough’s Oliver’s Mount War Memorial, elsewhere in the town Samuel Horsman’s name can be found in Falsgrave’s St James Church on a magnificently carved ‘Rood Screen’ memorial which bears the names of fifty former members of the church who had gave their lives during the First World War [including three civilians that had lost their lives during the Bombardment of Scarborough during December 11914]. In addition, Sergeant Horsman, a former pupil of Scarborough’s Municipal School had also been remembered on that School’s ‘Roll of Honour’ that lists the names of over sixty ‘old boys’ who had lost their lives whilst on active service between 1914 and 1918. Originally erected by ‘The Old Scholars Club’, this large memorial is located in the present day Graham School, located in Scarborough’s Woodlands Drive.
Pte. Thomas Albert Horsman
British Army 9th Batallion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
from:3/6, Garden St., Sheffield.
(d.27th Sep 1916)
Thomas Albert Horsman was my great grandfather. He was killed at the Battle of Somme and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. He left a widow and three children, his son, my grandfather, was just 7 years old and, sadly, I was almost the same age when he passed away. So unfortunately I have very little information about his father or his battalion and would really like to know more. So all info would be greatly received.
L/Cpl. William James Horsman
British Army 2nd Btn. ÃÆ??Ã?Ã? A Coy. Middlesex Regiment
from:Romford
(d.31st July 1917)
My Great Grandfather William Horsman was drafted into the 2nd Middlesex Battalion and was in the 3rd Battle of Yrpes where he was killed on the first day 31st July 1917 at Pilckem Ridge Ypres. He is remembered on the Ypres, (Menin Gate) Memorial. He was 38 when he died, leaving his wife & children behind in Romford.
Pte. William Adam Horsman
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
from:Addingham, Ilkley
(d.26th Sep 1917)
My great uncle, William Horsman is listed on the Addingham war memorial, Yorkshire. Willie was 19 years old when he was killed in action. He is also remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
L/Cpl Ernest Horsnell
British Army 13th Btn King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:19 Daisy Road, Woodford, Essex
(d.1 May 1917)
Cpl. William Thomas Horsnell
British Army Royal Army Service Corps
from:Wyken, Bridgnoth, Shropshire
William Horsnell was born in Hatfield Peverel, Essex on 3rd of Sep 1876. By trade he was a butcher. He enlisted at Shropshire on 28th of November 1915 and was posted on 1st of March 1917. He was wounded in action and moved to the Mile End Military Hospital, Bancroft Road, London. Papers dated 3rd of August 1918 declare his disability at 70% pending a decision on a service pension. He was discharged from the Royal Army Service Corps on 1st of March 1919. Next of kin recorded as his brother, Harry Horsnell of Woodford, Essex.
Rflmn. A Horton
11th Bn. Rifle Brigade
(d.25th February 1916)
Lance Corporal Alma Horton
Army K.O.Y.L.I. 18th Batn Cyclist Corp
from:South Elmsall
(d.22 Oct 1917)
I am adding my unknown story of a young man who enlisted in 1916 age 19 and died age 20 from an injury to his arm on the above date...I have no other info on this man my Uncle..not even in his civilian life..am saddened that he along with many other young men at this time did not live to have families of their own...but heartened that they are all remembered...if there are any photos of his Battalion on your site...how are they to be found..I will retain the details of the Cyclist Corps..for my Family History File. Writing about him acknowledges that he existed albeit his existence cut short by The Great War..
Rfm. Arthur Horton
British Army 7th Service Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Smethwick
(d.3rd Oct 1915)
Arthur Horton joined up in August 1914 with his brother John at Winchester. Arthur Horton was a Rifleman in the 7th Service Battalion and John was a Rifleman in the 9th Service Battalion. John was given a medical discharge one month later. He went on to join the Royal Engineers T.A as a Sapper in May 1915 until his discharge in March 1918. He was wounded in 1917 and also classed as 'Shell Shock'. Arthur Horton died of wounds on the 3rd Oct 1915 and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery.
Pte. Cyril Stephen Horton
British Army Royal West Kent Regiment
from:6a Ethelbert Road, Dover, Kent
Cyril Stephen Horton was my grandfather. He joined The Royal West Kent Regiment on 6th June 1918 and on 4th October was sent to fight in France. After just twenty-two days in France he was seriously wounded, resulting in the loss of a leg, and was sent back to England on 26th October. Just sixteen days later the armistice was signed.
Despite his disability, he remained active until his death in 1981 at the age of eighty-two. For many years he even managed to `run the line' as a linesman at local football matches! He had a great sense of humour and would sometimes bet people that he could stand the pain of being hit on the shin with a hammer. He'd offer them his artificial leg of course and would wince convincingly as it was struck! Even in his late seventies, he could `walk the legs off' both me and my young son! What a guy.
I have been trying to find out where exactly in France he was and what action he was involved in when he was wounded. From the dates of his service there, it seems very likely that he was involved in `the final advance' in either Flanders, Artois or Picardy. So far I have been unable to establish the location of The Royal West Kent Regiment at that time. If any one can advise what it was doing between 4th and 26 October 1918, I will be very grateful for your help.
Editors Note: to establish the location, you woul dfirst need to establish which battalion of the Royal West Kent's your Grandfather served with.
Edwin Raymond Horton
from:Dorchester
Pte. Ernest William Horton
British Army 8th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps.
(d.21st March 1918)
My grandfather 58917 Pte Ernest William Horton was killed on 21/03/1918 at Arras. He is remembered on the Arras Memorial to the missing at Arras.He was in the 8th Field Ambulance RAMC. He was married with 3 children. He lived in Ironstone Rd., Rawnsley, Cannock Staffs. Family still there. I have his ID tags.
Pte. George William Horton
British Army 1st Btn., C Coy., 9th Platoon South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.14th July 1917)
This was my great uncle, Willy Horton, who was killed in action on 14th July 1917, I believe in Bullecourt, Arras whilst fighting with the 1st South Staffordshire Regiment. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in the Pas De Calais Cemetery on the Boulevard du General de Gaulle on the South of the road to Doullens.
Pte. George Horton
British Army 2nd Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
(d.21st Apr 1916)
Pte. John Henry "Mad Jack" Horton
British Army 6th Btn., "D" Coy. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Bristol
(d.25th September 1915)
John Henry `Mad Jack' Horton was my great grandfather and was a glass blower by trade. His name is amongst many of his Battalion on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Pte. Paul Frederick Horton
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Scots
(d.28th September 1917)
Paul Horton was the son of Thomas Frederick and Minna Horton of Bedford. Born in Bedford he attended Bedford Modern Scool before going onto Manchester University where he obtained a 2nd class MA, History with honours. He was Assistant Minister at Fulneck Church.
He enlisted in March 1916 in Pudsey, Yorkshire with the 3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, later transferring to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots. He was killed in action on 28th of September 1917 aged 29 years at Ypres and is buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium. He is remembered on the War Memorial in St Peters Church, Bedford. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1896-1906, commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Rfmn. Samuel Horton
British Army 1/8th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.29th Jul 1918)
Samuel Horton died whilst holding the Battalion's position on Montaigne de Bligny. His body was never found and his name appears on the Soissons Memorial. Samuel was my great uncle. Unfortunately my mother never knew him as he was the eldest son of my great grandmother and great grandfather. My grandmother was the youngest child of a large family.
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