Benjamin (Ben) HORROCKS

HORROCKS, Benjamin

Service Number: 4358
Enlisted: 8 March 1916, Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company)
Born: Heywood, Manchester, England, 1874
Home Town: Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Railway Employee & Miner
Died: Killed in Action, Loos, France, 16 January 1917
Cemetery: Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension
Plot I, Row D, Grave 15
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boulder Roll of Honor, Boulder Roll of Honour Board, Fremantle 849 Memorial, Kalgoorlie St John's Anglican Church Honour Roll
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World War 1 Service

8 Mar 1916: Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Sapper, 4358, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), Blackboy Hill, WA
1 Jun 1916: Involvement Sapper, 4358, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
1 Jun 1916: Involvement Sapper, 4358, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
1 Jun 1916: Embarked Sapper, 4358, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Fremantle
1 Jun 1916: Embarked Sapper, 4358, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Fremantle
16 Jan 1917: Involvement Sapper, 4358, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4358 awm_unit: 3rd Australian Tunnelling Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1917-01-16

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Benjamin Thomas HORROCKS was born in Heywood, Manchester, England in 1874

His parents were Christopher HORROCKS & Elizabeth FENTON who married in England in 1870 (registered in Bury)

His family come to Australia via Melbourne on 29th May, 1884 on the ship Orient,  when Benjamin was 10 years old

He worked as a Miner & later as a Railway Employee & married Hannah May SMITH in Perth, Western Australia in 1898 - one known child, Christopher Norman HORROCKS born in 1904

He enlisted in Blackboy Hill, WA on 8th March, 1916 & embarked from Fremantle, WA on HMAT Warilda on 1st June, 1916 with the No. 6 Tunnelling Company

Benjamin was Killed in Action in France on 16th January, 1917 and is buried in the Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension - his name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial and the Kalgoorlie Roll of Honour

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