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 |
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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