The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal S H Hornby

Corporal (Acting Battalion Sergeant Major) Sidney Horace HORNBY, G/1788, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 4th October 1916.

28th March 1880, born Plumstead, Woolwich, Kent, son of John & Emily Maud Isabella Hornby.

1911 Census - 7 Byron Road, Gillingham, Kent - Emily Hornby, head, age 54, widow, born Woolwich, Kent; Sidney Hornby, son, age 31, single, general labourer, house builder, worker, born Plumstead, Kent.

Enlisted Chatham, Kent. Resided Gillingham, Kent.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France.

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