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This is in FMP, maybe it's him.....

Mike

First name(s) Lawrence Horner
Last name Doering
Service number 698 (Incomplete)
Rank Trooper, Lieutenant
Corps Imperial Light Horse and Royal Fusiliers
Rank: Lieutenant, Corps: Royal Fusiliers
Archive reference WO372/6
Archive reference description
Campaign Medal Index Cards and Silver War Badge Cards
Country Great Britain
Image link discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D2649202
Record set World War One British Army medal index cards
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Subcategory First World War
Collections from Great Britain

As I said originally, he did not look old enough, nor, I have to say does he look over one hundred years old in the photograph either!

QSAMIKE wrote:

baobab wrote: He was born in 1838 and I don't think he did anything in the ABW. He did go back to Canada, hence the Canadian uniform

If he was born in 1838 he would have been 102 years old when the Veterans Guard was founded in 1940......

Mike

Thanks for spotting my Typo error! He was actually 1891-1950, making him 49 in 1940, and 8 when the ABW started.
Incidentally, were his jodpurs standard uniform for the Veterans Guard?

He is not wearing jodhpurs in the photo at least what I can see..... Uniforms were issued to the VGC after regular military units and in some cases member still wore old WW1 uniforms till they got issued the correct one......

Mike

I don't know how to post a photo in this text body (if you could advise me there please) but have been able to attach one of Lawrence with his younger sister, in which he is wearing jodhpurs

This is a WW1 period photo the other is a WW2 photo........