Private Horace Karl Leaney
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Date of Birth
1887
Date of Death
1 Feb 1918
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Pte Horace Karl Leaney, 30858, Bedfordshire Yeomanry, died at Shoreham-on-Sea Military Hospital in Sussex from pneumonia on February 1st, 1918. He was wounded in action in May 1917 and had been in hospital ever since. He was buried at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Biscot, on February 8th.
Horace Leaney was born in Hemel Hempstead in 1887. On September 26th, 1908, he married Kent girl Mary Ann Osborne at Luton Parish Church and was a railway porter at the Midland Railway station at Leagrave. He lived with his wife and four young children - Thomas, Dorothy, William and Arthur - in Oak Road [now Oakley Road], Leagrave.
Horace is commemorated on the Leagrave War Memorial, as shown in the slideshow below along with his Biscot Churchyard gravestone and a picture of Horace with the 3/1st Beds Yeomanry in training at Colchester in 1915 (Horace is third from the left in the middle row).
Author: Deejaya
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