BANNER Horace Harry Elby

  • First Name(s):
    Horace 
    Harry 
    Elby 
  • Surname:
    BANNER
  • Service Number:
    27229
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    9th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    26th October 1916
  • Age At Death:
    22
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Amara War Cemetery, Iraq, Grave IX. C. 30.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Brother of Florence Banner, 74 St. George’s Rd., Redditch

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

BANNER Horace Harry Elby Is Named On These Memorials

Redditch St George’s Church WW1 Memorial
Redditch War Memorial

Further Information About BANNER Horace Harry Elby

The following information has been researched and transcribed by Jillian Coombes:
Horace Harry Elby Banner, Service No 27229, 9th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, born in Malvern, Worcestershire, resided and enlisted in Redditch, died 26th October 1916, Asiatic Theatres.

On 1911 census Horace, aged 16, was resident at home with his parents Harry Timothy and Caroline Banner in St Georges Road, Redditch and was employed as an apprentice Coach Painter.

The following information appears in the Bromsgrove, Droitwich & Redditch Messenger, Saturday 2nd December 1916:
Worcestershire Regiment Casualties
Died
Banner H. (27229) from Redditch

Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger digitised by and courtesy of Martin Stephens.

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