Name
Horace Christian Faraker
6/04/1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/04/1916
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
75144
Canadian Infantry
29th Bn.
'A' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RIDGE WOOD MILITARY CEMETERY
II. P. 11.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
"BELOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM"
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Broxbourne memorials
Pre War
Horace Christian FARAKER was born in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on 6th April 1884, the son of William Edward Faraker a Warehouseman and Emma Faraker, (nee Knight). One of five children although one died in infancy. His parents married on 6th September 1881, in Waltham Cross, Herts.
1891 Census records Horace aged 6, at school, living with his parents, brothers Thomas (8), Guy (1) and sister Grace (5) in, Station Lane, Broxbourne, Herts. The family had two live-in Servant, a Nurse Domestic Service and a Cook Domestic Servant.
The family later moved to Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, where his father William Faraker died on 6th September 1900.
1901 Census records Horace (16), still at school, living with his widowed mother Emma, at 12 Albany Park, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. They had a live-in Domestic Servant.
Horace and his elder brother Thomas emigrated to Canada, leaving Liverpool aboard the SS “Ionian” on 15th May 1902, for Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Wartime Service
Horace enlisted at Hastings Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada, on 5th March 1915, for the duration of the war, he gave his age as 31 years, single and his occupation a Marble Worker.
It is believed he was serving with the 6th Battalion, Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles, Militia, when he enlisted. He was posted to the 29th Vancouver Battalion, (known as Tobin’s Tigers) Canadian Infantry, and issued with service number 75144. On completion of his training, he sailed for England with his unit on 20th May 1915, aboard RMS “Missanabie”, arriving on the 30th May 1915, he was stationed at Lydd Military Camp, Kent, before sailing to France, disembarking at Boulogne, France, on 17th September 1915.
Seeing action on the Western Front, he was killed in Action on 6th April 1916, at The Battle of St Eloi Craters, (Battle of St. Elio Craters 27th March to 16th April 1916) (This was the first major battle for the Canadians, they sustained heavy casualties) aged 32, he is buried in Ridge Wood Cemetery, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave Ref: II. P. 11. At the time of his death, he was serving with “A” Company.
Additional Information
Horace’s Service record is available on-line at the Canadian National Archive.
The RMS “Missanabie” was Torpedoed and sank with the loss of 45 lives, off the Irish coast, by the German U-Boat UB 87, on the 9th September 1918, under the command of Kapitanleutnant Karl Petri.
His elder brother Thomas William Faraker served and survived the war, he was a Sergeant with the Canadian Postal Service, prior to the war he was a Railway Mail Clerk.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
