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John HORNBY MC
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Served in WWI as Trooper 2064, 19th Alberta Dragoons. Later commissioned 24 October 1915 Lieutenant South Lancashire Regiment.
In June 1916, shortly before the battle of the Somme, he received the Military Cross. Wounded in the back and shoulder during this battle, he was invalided to England. Once his injuries had healed, he walked out of a convalescent hospital near London and by September he had returned to Canada. In December he was decommissioned on account of ill health.
Died in the Polar Regions, May 1927 (1880-1927)
He is buried beside his log cabin on the Thelon River. There are two other graves at this location one being his cousin Edgar CHRISTIAN aged 18 and a young man Harold ADLARD. They all died of starvation.
Son of Albert Neilson Hornby and Ada Sara Ingram.
He is commemorated on his parents memorial in St Mary's Churchyard, Acton, Cheshire also on a plaque in the St Mary’s Church, Nantwich.
At rest beside his log cabin on the Thelon River along with his two friends.
http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/Searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=117587
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hornby_john_15E.html
http://greatbritishnutters.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/john-hornby-slapdash-explorer.html
