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F/S Robert Lewis Horning Jr. R71714
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 2:09 am
by 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
Re: F/S Robert Lewis Horning Jr. R71714
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 7:48 am
by 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.
Re: F/S Robert Lewis Horning Jr. R71714
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:09 am
by Temujin
Paul Squires wrote: ↑Thu Apr 24, 2025 2:09 am
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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Re: F/S Robert Lewis Horning Jr. R71714
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:24 am
by 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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Re: F/S Robert Lewis Horning Jr. R71714
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 12:27 pm
by 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.
Re: F/S Robert Lewis Horning Jr. R71714
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 5:06 pm
by Temujin
BFBSM wrote: ↑Thu Apr 24, 2025 12:27 pm
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
Re: F/S Robert Lewis Horning Jr. R71714
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 1:12 am
by 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
Re: F/S Robert Lewis Horning Jr. R71714
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:50 pm
by 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
