Casualty Details

Name:	HORLOCK, ERNEST GEORGE
Initials:	E G
Nationality:	United Kingdom
Rank:	Battery Serjeant Major
Regiment/Service:	Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text:	General Base Depot,
Secondary Unit Text:	(E.E.F.)
Age:	32
Date of Death:	30/12/1917
Service No:	42617
Awards:	V C
Additional information:	Son of John and Emily Horlock; husband of Ethel M. Horlock, of 5, Fitzalan Rd., Littlehampton Sussex.
Casualty Type:	Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:	F. 171.
Cemetery:	ALEXANDRIA (HADRA) WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Citation:	An extract from "The London Gazette" dated 24th Nov., 1914, (No. 28985), records the following:-"For conspicuous gallantry on 15th Sept., near Vendresse, when his Battery was in action under a heavy shell fire, in that, although twice wounded, he persisted on each occasion in returning to lay his gun after his wound had been dressed."