Name
David Arthur Hornby
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/12/1915
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19819
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VILLERS-BOCAGE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
B. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford,
St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford,
Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans
Pre War
Born on 28 Oct 1879 in Hertford son of John and Eliza (Gardiner) Hornby, of Frogs Hall, 39 Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford and baptised on 8 Feb 1880 at St Andrew’s, Hertford and living at 41 Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford in 1891.
He lived and worked with his brother Charles as a coach painter’s apprentice in Islington in 1901 and was back with his parents in Hertford in 1911 working as a painter. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford, entered France on 26 Jul 1915 and died in service.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
