F/S Robert Lewis Horning Jr. R71714

[Paul Squires]

Hi,

Flight Sergeant Horning was killed Jan. 14. 1942, in the loss of a #22 OTU Welllington DV481.

At the Find a Grave website here is a reference in a paper (from Dundas, Ontario?) that he had recently been married to "a Miss Harding, of Stratford-On-Avon [England]", but there is no reference to this in either the Commonwealth War Graves Commission or the Canadian Virtual War Memorial.

https://images.findagrave.com/photos/20 ... 4daedd.png

Does anyone have a reference to the name of this lady?

All the Best,

Paul Squires
Wetaskiwin, Alberta

[BFBSM]

I have just looked for the marriage on Ancestry and am unable to find any marriage relevant to a Robert Lewis Horning in 1942 +/- 5 years.

[Temujin]

Hi,

Flight Sergeant Horning was killed Jan. 14. 1942, in the loss of a #22 OTU Welllington DV481.

At the Find a Grave website here is a reference in a paper (from Dundas, Ontario?) that he had recently been married to "a Miss Harding, of Stratford-On-Avon [England]", but there is no reference to this in either the Commonwealth War Graves Commission or the Canadian Virtual War Memorial.

https://images.findagrave.com/photos/20 ... 4daedd.png

Does anyone have a reference to the name of this lady?

All the Best,

Paul Squires
Wetaskiwin, Alberta

The article you posted is a bit confusing……..its says he WAS to be married…..but then at the end it mentions his “young widow”…….and I can’t find any documentation that indicates he did get married.

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[Temujin]

Went searching…….a photo of him…….and another article which says he DID marry. Again I can’t find any confirmation of that

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[BFBSM]

I have just looked at the service records for Robert, his death certificate within those, indicate he was single at the time of his death.

[Temujin]

I have just looked at the service records for Robert, his death certificate within those, indicate he was single at the time of his death.

I did the same BFBSM with same results. That’s why i reread his newspaper article that he posted and it says in “was” to marry, so I think that didn’t happen. I can find no marriage records on Canadian or English Ancestry sites…..so I agree with you, he wasn’t married.

Cheers

[georgetanksherman]

Greetings Temujin and BFBSM,

One of my favorite pages to go to is Find-A-Grave, does not mention a wife, just family.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/981 ... is-horning

Hope all is well, Cheers

George

[Paul Squires]

Hi All,

My Apologies. I misread the article. He was engaged to be married.

I will try not to jump like that again.

Again, sorry to have caused a fuss over just a few words, and Many Thanks for setting the record straight before it gets published..

Paul
Wetaskiwin