Basic Details
Surname
Moulds
Forenames
Horace
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
12851
Notes
The Roll lists his address as 26 Duke Street.

(CWGC records that Private Horace Moulds, regimental number 12851, died aged 21 on 23/7/1916 serving in the 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is now buried in grave I.J.1 of Thiepval Anglo French Cemetery in France, having been reinterred after the War. They record him as the son of Mrs E Moulds of Belsize Avenue, Woodston, Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his mother Emma was his legatee. On the 1911 census Horace had been aged 16, living with his widowed mother Emma Moulds at 26 Duke Street, Old Fletton, Peterborough. His father Joseph had died in 1904).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Northants Regt
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
1st
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Pte
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Town of death
Not stated
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1916
Month of death
July
Day of death
23
Manner of death as stated
Killed in action on the Somme
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action
Personal Details
Address
26, DUKE STREET
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial