yeovil at War
Horace Baden Rowsell
Died of 'sickness' in Yeovil
Horace
Baden
Rowsell was
born in Yeovil
on 6 August 1900. He was the
son of
bricklayer
William Rowsell
(1874-1936) and
Bessie née Rose
(b1873). William
and Bessie's
children were
William Charles
(b1893), Ivy
Kathleen
(1894-1936),
Archibald Claude
Victor
(1897-1918) and
Horace. A
fifth child died
in infancy. In the 1901
census the
family were
listed at 12
Mary Street.
By 1911 they had
moved to 4
Crofton Avenue,
at which time
ten-year old
Horace was a
scholar.
Horace enlisted on 27 August 1918 at the age of eighteen years and ten months. He joined the Worcestershire Regiment with the Service Number 69541. Sadly we know very little of Horace's military career, other than he would have been based at Warwick. Horace was discharged from the army on 28 August 1919, the reason for his discharge listed as 'sickness'.
Horace died at home in Yeovil during the summer of 1920. He was just eighteen years old and was interred in Yeovil cemetery. His name is Inscribed in the County of Somerset Book of Remembrance in St Martin’s Chapel, Wells Cathedral and is recorded on the Yeovil War Memorial in the Borough.
Horace's brother Archie died of his wounds in 1919 - click here.
