Gunner 1210 John William HORNBUCKLE

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Died of wounds in 2nd Australian Hospital, France and Flanders, 3rd December 1917, aged 25.

• Buried: Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. Grave 9.J.34
  
• Awarded: British War and Victory Medals
• Son of William and Jane Elizabeth Hornbuckle [nee Exon]
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments | Stockingford

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Gunner Hornbuckle
• Wimereux Communal Cemetery
• Royal Field Artillery
• An NNWFHS Life Story Article by Celia Hornbuckle

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Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born 24 Jul 1893 at South Wigston, Leicester
• Attended Stockingford School [1903]
  
• Lived at 83 Kirkdale Road, Wigston Magna [1901]
• Lived at 55 Webb Street, Nuneaton [1903 to 1914]
• Employed as a coal miner / hewer at Tunnel Colliery [1911]
  
• Enlisted on 1 Sep 1914 at Nuneaton. Arrived in Egypt 2 Jul 1915. Arrived in France 22 Mar 1916 
• July 1915, wounded at Chocolate Hill, Turkey; hospitalised in Egypt until after Christmas 1915
• 13 May 1917, injured at Monchy, France/Flanders; hospitalised in Cardiff, then at Coytrehen Park hospital, Tondu, South Wales
• Returned to France 1 Nov 1917; gassed on the 20th, wounded and died 3 Dec 1917.