Horace Stanley Neville Horne

A Private with the 1st Battalion, Horace died on 29th of June 1917 at the age of 20. 

Horace was born at Wandsworth, London, on 8 October 1896, a son of Charles John and Louisa Sarah Horne. He was baptised at Saint Peter’s Church, Vauxhall, London, on 22 November 1898, and his family lived at 5 South Lambeth Road. In 1901 they lived at 208 Earlsfield Road, Wandsworth. 

Horace was a pupil at Stradbroke Road School, Great Yarmouth, before, on 28 February 1910, becoming a pupil at Northgate Boys School, Great Yarmouth, and his family lived at 10 Harley Road. This was still the family home in 1911 when Horace worked as an apprentice French polisher. Later his father lived at Grove Cottage, Oulton, Lowestoft.

Horace enlisted in the Norfolk Regiment, at Great Yarmouth, in early 1914, service number 9023. On 23 November 1914 he arrived in France to join the 1st Battalion. 

Horace received a gunshot wound to his left arm and was admitted to No 3 Casualty Clearing Station on 15 March 1915. He was transferred to No 1 ambulance Train the same day. Horace was wounded again in 1915, with his name appearing in the War Office Daily List 19 September 1915. He was also wounded in 1916 with his name appearing in the War Office Daily List 8 September 1916. 

At 7.10 a.m. on 28 June 1917 the 1st Battalion began at attack at Oppy Wood. The battalion’s war diary records that the attack was a complete success and that within 30 minutes all objectives had been taken, 71 prisoners captured, two Lewis guns recaptured, with two German machine-guns and two German trench mortars captured as well. The casualties were ‘light.’ 

It seems that Horace was wounded during the attack at Oppy and that he died of his wounds then next day. 

Horace’s name appears on the war memorial at Saint Margaret's Church.