Name
Horace Frederick Argent
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/12/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
107971
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
31st Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY
W. 10
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans
Pre War
Address given as 32 Liverpool Road, St Albans.
Wartime Service
Died of wounds.
Additional Information
In loving memory of
HORACE FREDERICK
THE BELOVED SON OF
HORACE SAMUEL & ROSE ARGENT WHO DIED OF WOUNDS DECEMBER 27TH 1917.
BURIED AT TAHTA(81). EGYPT AGED 19 YEARS.
“HE SLEEPS NOT IN HIS NATIVE LAND BUT NEATH SOME FOREIGN SKIES AND FAR FROM THOSE WHO LOVED HIM BEST IN A HEROES GRAVY LIES.”
*1 Buried in Ramleh War cemetery.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
