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Private Thomas HORNE

1st and 3rd Battalions, Northamptonshire Regiment 3/8643

Thomas Horne 1893-1957
Thomas Horne 1893-1957

Thomas was born in July 1893 in Spratton, the son of Thomas Horne, a farm labourer from a long-established family in the village, and his wife Emma. They lived with their large family in a three-roomed cottage in Manor Road, Spratton. Three brothers served in the war – Thomas, Arthur and Lewis. Thomas and Arthur returned safely, but Lewis was killed in action in France. Thomas became a baker when he left school and was generally known as ‘Knocker’ in the village. He joined the Reserves in January 1909 aged 16.

He was called up immediately war was declared in August 1914 and sent to France with the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment aged 21. He fought at Mons and Ypres and received a gunshot wound to his arm in action on 14 November 1914. After being treated in the hospital at Rouen he was invalided home just in time for the birth of his baby daughter, Phyllis on 21 November 1914. He quickly married his sweetheart Kate Wykes from Spratton at the Registry Office in Northampton before returning to the Front in January 1915. He fought with the 3rd Battalion at Loos, Auber’s Ridge and Cambrai and was discharged in January 1918. Thomas was awarded the 1914 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

Thomas died on 9 February 1957 aged 64 and was buried in the new cemetery in Spratton with his wife, Kate.

Thomas sometimes writes his name as HORN, but usually the family use HORNE.

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Where he lived in Spratton

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MEN WHO SERVED

ADNITT
ARCHER
ARTHUR
AUSTIN
BALDERSON
BALDWIN
BATTAMS
BILLING
BLAKESLEY
BLUNDELL
BOWERS
BRANSON
BROWN
BUCKBY
BUSWELL
CAPON
CATTELL
CLARKE
COOK
COOKE
COPSON
CRANE
DICKENS
DICKERSON
DUNKLEY
ELDRED
ELSDALE
ERSKINE
FOWLES
FRANKLIN
FRISBY
GAMMAGE
GIST
GOODEN
GOODWIN
GREEN
HAYTER
HIDER
HIGGS
HOBLEY
HODGE(S)
HODSON
HORNE
HUNT
JOHNSON
JUDD
KENCH
KNIGHT
KNIGHTALL
LEATHERLAND
LEESON
LEONARD
LETTS
LIVESEY
MAINS
MANNING
MANNINGHAM-BULLER
MARTIN
MASON
MIDDLETON (WYKES)
NORMAN
PAGE
PASSEY
PATEMAN
PAYNE
PHEASANT
POWELL
REEVE
RHODES-MOORHOUSE
RICHARDSON
SMITH
SNEDKER
SPEECHLEY
STEVENS
TARPLEY
TARRANT
TAYLOR
THORNTON
TIRRELL
TITE
TREDWELL
TURLAND
VINEY
VOKE
WADHAMS
WARD
WARWICKS
WHATTON
WOOD
WYKES
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