Chester-le-Street Chronicle
Pauline Priano has submitted the following:-
Henry Tyler Horne, (known as Harry), was born January 14th 1888 in New Seaham, Sunderland, one of 9 children, 3 boys, 3 girls and 3 deceased, born to Edward William Horne 1848 and Mary Hannah Tyler 1850, both natives of Hampstead, Middlesex. They married July 3rd 1871 at the church of St John, Hampstead. They remained in the Middlesex area, where their three eldest children were born, until about 1876, when they migrated north setting up home in New Seaham. Edward William worked as a weigh man in 1891, his family living at 23 Seaham Street, Easington District, his widowed mother in law Kezia Tyler had joined them there. Two years later they moved to Littleburn, Langley Moor and by 1901 were living at Thomas Street in Craghead. Henry Tyler now 13 years of age worked as a pony driver at the pit along with his father employed as a stone man. Edward William Horne died before 1911, his widow remained at Thomas Street supported by her sons Edward John and Henry Tyler working as hewers at the pit and the additional income from a boarder John Staples a colliery lamper.
Henry Tyler Horne enlisted and was assigned as Able Seaman Tyneside Z/6332 Hood Battalion, Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, attached to the 63rd Royal Naval Division of the British Army. The Division landed along with the Regular Army 29th Division in Gallipoli during 1915, later evacuated to France, participating in the final stages of the Battle of the Somme 1916 along the River Ancre to capture Beaucourt. The Division saw action at Miraumont, January to March 1917, Battle of the Scarpe April 1917 a phase of the Battle of Arras, the Battle of Arleux April 1917 and then withdrawn to trenches away from the front line.
Able Seaman Henry Tyler Horne Z/6332 R.N.D. was killed or died as a direct result of enemy action June 4th 1917. His body was buried by his comrades on the battlefield and marked with a cross bearing his name and service details. It was exhumed after Armistice and reburied in the presence of an Army Chaplain, October 13th 1919 along with 2 unknown Army, 3 unknown Navy, 1 unknown Airman and 3 named Royal Navy/Marines, brought in from the same spot, at Orchard Dump Cemetery Arleux-en-Gohelle, Pas de Calais, France, grave VII. H. 5. Henry Tyler was 29 years old and single.
His mother Mary Hannah received all monies due to him, a pension and his awards of the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. She paid 14 shillings and 7 pence for an additional inscription to his headstone which reads, “Greater Love Hath No Man That He Lay Down His Life For Another”.
In God’s safe keeping. Rest In Peace.
Henry Tyler Horne is remembered at Craghead on C120.01 C120.02 and C120.04
