History while in the forces
Feb 1915: joined Leeds University Officers' Training Corps1915: gazetted and attached South Lancashire Regiment
1916: transferred to Royal Flying Corps at present - in training at Reading
Jun 1917: flying at Beverley, Yorkshire
20 Aug 1917: transferred to Royal Flying Corps Fort Grange, Gosport
10 Sep 1917: transferred to Central Flying Station Upavon, Wiltshire
01 Nov 1917: attained his "wings" and sent to Devizes
05 Nov 1917: promoted to Lieutenant
11 Dec 1917: with 29th Squadron Royal Flying Corps in France
Dec 1917: reported "Missing"
22 Jan 1918: Prisoner of War at Karlsruhe
Mar 1918: Prisoner of War at Landshul
Dec 1918: returned home as released Prisoner of War
- Surname
- Caunt
- Forename
- Horace Vernon
- Rating or rank
- 2nd Lieutenant
- Regiment or Other Unit
- 13th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
- Branch
- Dewsbury
- Date of Birth
- 03 Mar 1896
- Date of birth
- 1896
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- Apr 1912
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- Feb 1915
