Name
Horace William Thorley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/08/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY
I. I. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Shenley Village Memorial, Not on the Shenleybury memorial*1
Pre War
Census: 1901 Census, living at Fernham Village with Parents and 1911 Census living at Manor House School, Tonbridge as a boarder,
Wartime Service
9 Jan 1917 gazetted as a Temporary Second lieutenant and then 7 Jun 1918 gazetted to Second lieutenant as of 12 Jun 1918.
Additional Information
3 Dec 1918 Probate, shown as resident at Wood Hall, Shenley. £269 6s 4d to father.
His brother Guy’s grave in Shenley (St. Botolph) Churchyard, Shenleybury has a headstone which also commemorates Horace. Their inscription reads:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
CADET GUY DEANE THORLEY. YOUNGEST SON OF JOSEPH THORLEY OF WOOD HALL, SHENLEY. WHO DIED IN NAPSBURY MILITARY HOSPITAL. AUGUST 3RD 1918. AGED 19 YEARS.
ALSO OF HORACE WILLIAM. SECOND SON. LIEUT. 17TH LANCERS.
KILLED IN ACTION AUGUST 8TH 1918, AGED 23 YEARS. AND BURIED IN CAYEUX-EN-SANTERRE, FRANCE.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams
