Name
David Arthur Hornby
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/12/1915
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19819
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VILLERS-BOCAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
B. 1.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford
Pre War
Born on 28 Oct 1879 in Hertford son of John and Eliza (Gardiner) Hornby, of Frogs Hall, 39 Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford and baptised on 8 Feb 1880 at St Andrew’s, Hertford and living at 41 Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford in 1891. He lived and worked with his brother Charles as a coach painter’s apprentice in Islington in 1901 and was back with his parents in Hertford in 1911 working as a painter. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford, entered France on 26 Jul 1915 and died in service.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
