BORN BEVERLEY 1890. SON OF ROBERT CROSS HORNER (1859-1936) AND MARY ANN THOMPSON (1863-1952), OF 20, RAYWELL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SON OF A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. SERVED AS A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER, IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (1911 CENSUS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 24/02/1915. SERVED AS CORPORAL AND ACTING SERGEANT, IN THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 09/04/1915, AGED 25. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL.
HE MARRIED AT SOUTHWARK, ON 26/05/1912, AGED 22. HIS WIDOW, ELIZABETH ETHEL BURCHATT, LIVED AT 235, WATERLOO ROAD, SOUTHWARK, SOUTH EAST LONDON (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SHE MARRIED ANOTHER SOLDIER, ON 24/01/1917 AND BECAME MRS RUSSELL.
CHARLIE HORNER’S DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 24/04/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, AND ADDRESS AS 20, RAYWELL STREET, HULL.
HE IS RECORDED , KILLED, ON HULL’S RAYWELL STREET, ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 22 November 1916)
HIS BROTHER, GEORGE HORNER, ALSO DIED IN THE WAR. THEY ARE BOTH LISTED ON THE BEVERLEY WAR MEMORIAL.
