Name
Horace Thomas Doughty
20 April 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/09/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
304155
London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
1st/5th (City of London) Bn.
'B' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Arkley Village Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Arkley, Shenley War Memorial, Chipping Barnet Memorial,
Pre War
Horace Thomas Doughty was born on 20 April 1892 in Arkley, nr Barnet, Hertfordshire, the son of John and Fanny Doughty. He was baptised on 5 May 1901 at St Peter's Arkley, along with his two brothers, Frederick and Reginald.
Horace and his brothers attended the Church of England Infant School at St Peter's in Arkley. Reggie and Horace later transferred to the National School in Barnet.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at South Cottage, Arkley where his father was working as a labourer on a road. They remained in Arkley (in the civil parish of Shenley) in 1911, at which time Horace was working as a copper en graver for a photographic works.
His parents later lived at Rose Cottage, Arkley Barnet, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hornsey, Middlesex, and initially joined the Middlesex Regiment, 7th Battalion under service no. 3250. (N.B. the 7th Battalion HQ was in Priory Road, Hornsey). He was later transferred to the 1/5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade).
Horace was killed in action on 6 September 1916 aged 23, during the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
(N.B. His date of death is given as 6 September 1916 but is likely to be a retrospective entry as a letter from the British Red Cross dated 10 September 1916 discusses the fact that he was missing following an action covering 6 - 10 September 1916 after which he was not accounted for at roll call. The army then posted him as killed in action.)
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £9 and pay owing of £1 9s 10d. His mother received a pension of 12 shillings a week in respect of Horace and his brother Reggie who died of malaria whilst serving with the Army Service Corps in Mesopotamia (Iraq) in 1918
The photograph shows the two Doughty brothers, it seems most likely that Horace is standing.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, shenleyww1.wordpress.com
