Thomas HORN Private, Durham Light Infantry & 13 th Northumberland Fusiliers. Died 16 th June 1917. Thomas Edward Horn was born in Middleton-in-Teesdale in County Durham in1891. He was the second child of Thomas Horn, a stone quarryman, and his wife Alice, 15 years his junior. At the time of the 1911 Census Thomas was living with his widowed mother, two younger sisters and younger brother at The Hollow, Low Beechburn, between Howden-le-Wear and Crook. Thomas was now a putter, working in a local mine. Thomas enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry, but later transferred to the 13 th Northumberland Fusiliers, probably about the time he married Mary Brewis in Morpeth in the summer of 1915. Mary and Thomas did not have long together as he was soon posted overseas to Flanders and died on the 16 th June 1917. He is remembered on the Arras Memorial as he was one of the missing soldiers whose body was never recovered.

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