PRIVATE WILLIAM ERNEST HORNER
SHERWOOD FORESTERS NOTTS AND DERBY REGIMENT
13TH MARCH 1917 AGE 20
BURIED: WARLINCOURT HALTE BRITISH CEMETERY,
From the 1911 census it would appear that William Ernest Horner was his parents' only child. His father, Joshua Alfred Horner, Secretary to a Limited Liability Company in Nottingham that dealt in all kinds of goods except eatables, tells us much about his son in his brief inscription - that he was a volunteer and not a conscript, that he saw the cause as freedom rather than God, king, country, honour or even duty, and that he joined up despite the fact that he hated war.
{NB I have only described the father in such detail as whoever transcribed the census form made rather a hash of it!]