Name

John Horner.

Description

Private John Horner.

Life Story

Name: John Horner.

Service Number: 9114.

Rank: Private.

Battalion: 1st Battalion.

Regiment: Leinster Regiment.

Born: Belfast.

Died: 4th May 1915.

Address: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

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John Horner, nephew of Thomas and Lizzie Heaney, was connected to 148 Ainsworth Avenue, Shankill, Belfast

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John joined the Leinster Regiment.

He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 19th December 1914.

John was a Private in 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment when he Died Of Wounds on the 4th of May 1915

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Johns Soldiers Effects were left to his aunt Lizzie Heaney

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John received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1915 Star

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He is Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

To Remember Is To Honour

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Footnote.

Within four local newspapers, from June 1915, it replicates and states the following

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Private John Hanna, 1st Battalion Leinsters Regiment, who has died at Ypres from the shock caused by a shell explosion, was a nephew of Mr Thomas Heaney, 148 Ainsworth Avenue, Belfast.

Then within Johns Medal Roll Index Card its states that John Horner Died of Shell Shock.

SASH believes this article to be about the same person, yet some confusion has arose around his second name within the newspaper. We have checked a number of sources, Belfast Book Of Honour, C.W.G.C, Ancestry included, and cannot find a John Hanna, 1st Battalion Leinster Regiment, Died on the 4th, Same Day, 1915.

However given we understand the complexities of researching the Great War period and the Men that served, we feel that we most keep the possibility open

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