Name
Horace Blows
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/01/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
L/39838
Royal Field Artillery
"X" 2nd Trench Mortar Battery,
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOIS-GUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
D.27A
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town War Memorial
Pre War
Before the outbreak of the great war Horace served as a policeman in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
Wartime Service
He was severely wounded by a bomb dropped from an aircraft on the 9th January 1918, and underwent four operations to remove nine pieces of shrapnel, but finally succumbed to his injuries on 20th January 1918.
Additional Information
The brother of Henry John Blows who was killed in action on 21 November 1917 aged 20.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
