21910 Pte Horace F Jude 11th Bn, Royal Fusiliers

21910 Private Horace Frederick Jude of the 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, died of wounds on the 2nd July 1916. Of the 1,439 men to die on this date, 430 died of wounds, the majority of these wounds sustained during the previous day's assaults.

Horace was born in West Ham and enlisted at Willesden. His number tells us that he joined the Royal Fusiliers in January 1916. Horace was 19 years old at the time of his death. He was the son of William and Charlotte Jude of 39 St Mary's Road, Harlesden, London. Like so many Somme casualties he has no known grave and is therefore commemorated by name on the imposing and sombre Thiepval Memorial.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission