Name
Horace John Triplow
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/10/1918
19 years
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
96827
Tank Corps
1st Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE CATEAU MILITARY CEMETERY
II. D. 12.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Inscription.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Radwell memorials. Stotfold War Memorial, Stotfold, Bedfordshire.
Pre War
Horace was born in Radwell, Hertfordshire, in 1899, the son of William George Triplow and Mary Ann Triplow (nee Bygrave).
1901 Census records Horace aged 2, living with his parents, brothers, Wilfred 11, Harry 8, Albert 4 and sister Lilian 9, in North Road, Radwell, Herts.
1911 Census records Horace aged 12 and at school, living with his parents and brother Cecil 2. The
family were now living in the Kings Walden area of Hertfordshire.
Wartime Service
Horace enlisted in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, formerly with the 21st Battalion, Training Reserve, with the service number 1888, then transferred to the Tank Corps with the service number 96827.
He was Killed in Action on Thursday 17th October 1918. Buried in Le Cateau Military Cemetery, Nord, France.
Additional Information
His effects of £23-13s-4d went to his mother Mary. His brothers Wilfred, Harry and Albert all enlisted, Cecil was too young to enlist. Brother Wilfred was Killed in Action on 9th August 1917, he has no known grave and is Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing. Panel 45 & 47. He served with the 8th Battalion, Queens Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment. S/N G/7761. Brother Harry was Killed in Action on 21st April 1915, he has no known grave and is also Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing. Panel 31 & 33. He served with the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. S/N 3/8561. Brother Albert was found medically unfit to serve in October 1917, due to a gunshot wounds he had received. He was awarded the Silver War Badge. He served initially with the Suffolk Regiment. s/n 45188 and then with the Bedfordshire Regiment with the s/n 40665.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
