Name
Horace Brackley
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/12/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
M2/101784
Army Service Corps
8th G.H.Q. Reserve Mechanical Transport Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PREMONT BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot III, Row D, Grave 18.
France
Headstone Inscription
THY WILL BE DONE
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring, Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Leonards War Memorial, Buckinghamshire
Pre War
Horace Brackley was born in 1892 in Aston Clinton, Bucks (baptised 8 May 1892 at St Leonard’s, Bucks.) to George Brackley, carpenter, and Emma (nee Wallis).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Mark (born 1879) , Frank (born 1883, died 1893), George (born 1884), Harry (born 1885) and Rose (born 1890) were living at three Gates, Aston Clinton.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, (George now a builder/farmer), Mark & George (both carpenters), Harry, Rose and Horace were living at Chivery Cottage, St Leonards, Aston Clinton.
On the 1911 Census, Horace was a helper in the building trade aged 19, and still living Chivery in Aston Clinton, with his parents and sister Rose.
His mother Emma died in 1914, His father in 1923.
Horace married Alice Humphreys of Cholesbury, Tring. in 1918 (Aylesbury district).
Wartime Service
No Service Record or Soldiers Who Died in the Great War entry was found for Horace. He may have enlisted in 1915/16 as M2/ 101784 in the Army Service Corps. M2 prefix indicates Driver without supervision.
He served in France with G H Q 8th Reserve Mt Company a Divisional pool of transport. He was taken ill with Influenza and died on 2 Dec 1918.
Additional Information
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar. of £140 16s 7d to his widow Alice. Unfortunately, Horace’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing, nor does he have an entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919.
War Gratuity of £20 10s and arrears of 1s 1d was paid to his widow Alice.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
