Name
Horace Brackley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/12/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
M2/101784
Army Service Corps
8th G.H.Q. Reserve Mechanical Transport Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PREMONT BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot III, Row D, Grave 18.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring, Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Leonards War Memorial, Buckinghamshire
Pre War
Son of George BRACKLEY of St Leonard’s, Tring, Herts, and the late Emma (nee WALLIS) BRACKLEY; husband of Alice (nee HUMPHREYS) BRACKLEY of Cholesbury, Tring.
His parents married 1870 in the Aylesbury, Bucks, district. Emma died 1914 in the Aylesbury district aged 64; George died 5 May 1923 in Aylesbury aged 73.
Horace was born 1892 in Aston Clinton, Bucks, and baptised 8 May 1892 at St Leonard’s, Bucks. He married 1918 in the Aylesbury district.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Aston Clinton, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a helper in the building trade aged 19, he still lived in Aston Clinton, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died in France.
Additional Information
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar. Unfortunately, Horace’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing, neither does he have an entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
