Name
Arthur Mather Horsey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/08/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Surgeon Probationer
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
H.M.S. "Recruit"
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 24
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Baptist Church Lychgate, Widford Separate plaque in church
Pre War
Born Highbury, London, son of George Mather and Sarah Jane. Went to Rugby School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Enrolled there in 1913.
Wartime Service
Destroyer H.M.S. Recruit was torpedoed by UB16 in the North Sea and sunk with 53 men lost.
Additional Information
B.A. (Cantab.). Son of George Mather Horsey and Sarah Jane Horsey, of The Bourne, Widford, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
