Herbert Horne
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Herbert was the son of Thomas and Millicent Horne (née Norton). His father Thomas was born in Radford, Nottingham, in 1860. His mother Millicent was born in 1867, also in Radford, the daughter of John and Sarah Norton. In 1871 her parents and their six children, including Millicent, were living in Radford where her father was a beer house keeper. Also in the household were five lodgers. Thomas and Millicent were married at Radford St Peter in April 1886 and had nine children, four of whom died in childhood or infancy: John Thomas b. 1886 bap. St Ann 1887 and Ernest b. 1888 bap. Christ Church 1888 d. 1892, both born Radford, and their siblings who were born in Beeston, Herbert b. 1891 (J/A/S), May b. abt. 1894, Harry b. 1897, Hilda Victoria b. 1900, Cyril Norton b. 1901 d. 1902 and twins Millicent and Ellen b. 1904 d. 1904. Thomas and his wife were living on St Ann's Well Road, Nottingham, when their eldest son John was baptised and in Wellington Square, Nottingham, when their second son Ernest was baptised in 1888. However, by 1891 Thomas, an iron plainer, and Millicent were living on Broadgate, Beeston, with sons John and Ernest. Herbert was born later that year and Ernest died the following year aged four. The family had moved to 17 Wollaton Road, Beeston by 1901. In the home on the night of the census were Thomas, a general labourer, Millicent a charwoman, four of their five children, John a 'jacker off', Herbert, May and Hilda, and Thomas' widowed mother Eliza Horne. Harry (b. 1897) has not yet been traced on the census. Cyril, who was born later that year, died in 1902, and twin girls born in 1904 died the same year. Herbert's mother, Millicent, died in 1904. By 1911 her husband, a labourer at a lace factory, was living at 17 Wollaton Road, Beeston, with his son Herbert a brass bobbin winder, Mary, who was 'at home' presumably acting as the family's housekeeper, and Harry who was school age. Hilda was living on Hartley Road, Radford, in the home of her maternal uncle, Henry Norton, a grocer, and his wife Martha (née Swanwick) and their two sons. The eldest son, John Thomas, a Leivers lace maker, had married Mabel Ann Ward in 1908 and they and their young son were living at 37 Middleston Street, Beeston. Thomas was still living in Beeston in 1921 with his eldest daughter May. He probably died in 1924 aged 63. Herbert's younger brother Harry attested in 1915 and served with the Royal Field Artillery (80694 Driver). He enlisted in Alfreton and gave his home address as High Street, Swanwick Road, Alfreton; he was a miner and probably employed at Morewood Swanwick Collieries. Harry was posted in February 1915 and served in France from 17 April 1916-4 April 1918 (1y 353d). He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest (lung) and head and was in hospital in the UK from 5 April to 8 May 1918 (33d) and then at Eastbourne Convalescent Hospital from 8 May to 1 June (25 days). Harry embarked at Southampton on 12 September 1918 for India where he served at Hyderabad and Karachi. He left India for the UK on 9 September 1919 (via Egypt, ashore 21 September-2 October 1919), receiving hospital treatment at Queen Mary Hospital, Whalley, between 12 October and 8 November for double chronic otitis media, a condition for which he had received treatment in France. He was transferred to 'B' Army Reserve on demobilization on 8 December 1919. In the 1920s he was awarded a disability pension for deafness in both ears which had been brought on by military service (France December 1916 'cold', and France March 1917 'gunfire') and for which he had received periods of treatment in France and the UK and probably also in India. The award took into account that his disability precluded him returning to his previous occupation of miner and that he had a wife and child to support.
12/13th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers The 12th (Service) Battalion and 13th (Service) Battalion were formed at Newcastle in September 1914 as part of Kitchener’s Third New Army and served with the BEF France from September 1915. In August 1917 the Battalions amalgamated to form the 12th/13th Battalion. Herbert Horne was killed in action on 27 May 1918. The Battalion took part in the Third Battle of the Aisne (27 May 1918-6 June 1918) when ‘A small and tired British force, sent to the Chemin des Dames in exchange for fresh French divisions that went north, was struck and virtually destroyed as part of another German offensive, Operation Bluecher.’ (www.longlongtrail.co.uk). Hefbert has no known grave and is commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, France. CWGC - History of the Soissons Memorial (extract): Soissons stands on the River Aisne and is about 100km from Paris. 'The original British Expeditionary Force crossed the Aisne in August 1914 a few kilometres west of Soissons, and re-crossed it in September a few kilometres east. For the next three and a half years, this part of the front was held by French forces and the city remained within the range of German artillery. At the end of April 1918, five divisions of Commonwealth forces (IX Corps) were posted to the French 6th Army in this sector to rest and refit following the German offensives on the Somme and Lys. Here, at the end of May, they found themselves facing the overwhelming German attack which, despite fierce opposition, pushed the Allies back across the Aisne to the Marne. Having suffered 15,000 fatal casualties, IX Corps was withdrawn from this front in early July, but was replaced by XXII Corps, who took part in the Allied counter attack that had driven back the Germans by early August and recovered the lost ground. The Soissons Memorial commemorates almost 4,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom forces who died during the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne in 1918 and who have no known grave.' (www.cwgc.org)
Nottingham Evening Post, ‘Roll of Honour,’ 29 June 1918: ‘Horne. Killed in action, May 27th, 1918, Lance-Corporal Herbert Horne, Northumberland Fusiliers, aged 27. From sorrowing dad, May and Hilda, and Harry with the colours.’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) Nottingham Evening Post, ‘Roll of Honour,’ 29 June 1918: ‘Horne. Killed in action, May 27th, 1918, Lance-Corporal Herbert Horne, Northumberland Fusiliers, aged 27. Gone but not forgotten. Loving brother and sister, Jack [John Thomas] and Mabel [wife].’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) Nottingham Evening Post, ‘Roll of Honour,’ 1 July 1918: ‘Horne. Killed in action, May 27th, 1918, Pte. (sic) Herbert Horne, Northumberland Fusiliers. The supreme sacrifice. Aunt Nellie, uncle Jack and cousins, and Sarah and Jack (Swanwick).’ (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) WW1 Pension Ledgers: named his father Thomas, residence Beeston.
