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=== Gunner John Ogden Horsfield aged 27 ===
John Ogden Horsfield was born in 1892 to Alfred and Elizabeth Hanna Horsfield. He was one of four children, he had an older brother Ernest and two sisters Ruth and Janet. In 1911, the family was living at 19 Goitside, John is a grocer’s assistant, his father Alfred is working at Bracken’s Paper Mill, The two girls are both making clothes and his older brother Ernest is a police Constable in the Lancashire Constabulary working in Stretford, Manchester. John joined up on 11 January 1916 and was posted to France on 4th December as part of the Royal Garrison Artillery. In the early summer of 1917, he was with the 247th Siege Artillary. He received a gunshot wound to his stomach and was treated in a field hospital. He was posted home on 7 July 1917 and was given clerical work to do in Army barracks at Ripon and then Weymouth. He was discharged before the end of the war, on 10 April 1918 as no longer fit for active service. On returning home, he got married to Emily Uttley (who’s elder brother Willie had given his life in August 1918). The couple set up house in Thomas Street South in Kings Cross and John got a job as a Tramway Office Clerk. But they were only married for a few months before John contracted flu and died. His wife Emily gave birth to their son John in the summer. She never remarried and died in Halifax in 1961.

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