Private 3/8925 William Henry HOROBIN

Private 3/8925 William Henry Horobin{gallery}Pte W H Horobin{/gallery}1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 5th July 1915, aged 21

• Buried: Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave II.J.15
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of John William and Harriet Horobin [nee Bray]
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments | Queen’s Road School | Stockingford

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Pte Horobin
• Larch Wood Cemetery
• Dorsetshire Regiment

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born 7 Nov 1894 and baptised on 21 Nov 1894 at Nuneaton
• Attended Queen’s Road School
  
• Lived at 8 Court, 8 House, Abbey Street, Nuneaton [1901]
  
• Lived at 17 Haunchwood Road, Nuneaton [1911]
  
• Employed as a coal miner / trammer [1911]
• Enlisted at Nuneaton on 1 Sep 1914.  Disembarked at Rouen 13 May 1915