Horace was an ex-employee of the Underwood Co-Operative Stores. He enlisted at Eastwood, Notts, prior to 1916 and served with The Sherwoods during The Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, when British Troops were drafted in to quell the Rebellion. On Friday 27th April 1917, only one year after his tour of duty in Ireland, Horace was killed in action during the attack at Hargicourt, France, aged 22 years. His friend, Private Harold Cheetham, serving in the same regiment and listed on the Jacksdale Memorial as having served, informed Horace’s parents that Horace had been shot through the temple and died instantaneously.

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