Name
Thomas Edward Horn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
55961
Royal Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Thomas Horn was identified through being recorded in the Absent Voter Records of Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 serving as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers and living at Railway Terrace Abbots Langley. Census Records for him have not been traced, however a Family History was found on the internet.
Thomas was born on 31 March 1888 at Ivinghoe Aston, Buckinghamshire. On 27th November 1909 he married Sarah Ann Hing at the Weslyan Chapel at Hockliffe near Leighton Buzzard. Throughout the next twenty years the couple raised seven children, one of which, Robert Edward Horn was born at Abbots Langley on 17th January 1920, and another, Harold James Horn, at Kings Langley on 6th November 1922. Thomas’s occupation is given as Railway Ganger.
It is not known when the family came to the Abbots Langley area, however Thomas was recorded in the Parish Magazine Roll of Honour from September 1916, when he was shown serving with the Royal Engineers. He was recorded each month in the Parish Magazine through to the end of the War, and in December 1918 it was indicated that Thomas was wounded whilst serving with the Royal Engineers.
Thomas Horn survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
