Horace Brackley

Name

Horace Brackley

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

Not Researched

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

Son of George BRACKLEY of St Leonard’s, Tring, Herts, and the late Emma (nee WALLIS) BRACKLEY; husband of Alice (nee HUMPHREYS) BRACKLEY of Cholesbury, Tring.

His parents married 1870 in the Aylesbury, Bucks, district.  Emma died 1914 in the Aylesbury district aged 64; George died 5 May 1923 in Aylesbury aged 73.

Horace was born 1892 in Aston Clinton, Bucks, and baptised 8 May 1892 at St Leonard’s, Bucks.  He married 1918 in the Aylesbury district.

On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Aston Clinton, with his parents and four siblings.  On the 1911 Census, a helper in the building trade aged 19, he still lived in Aston Clinton, with his parents and one sibling.

Wartime Service

He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died in France.  

Additional Information

He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar. Unfortunately, Horace’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing, neither does he have an entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919.

Acknowledgments

Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)