This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Horace Charles Porter)
(Porter, Horace Charles)
Service no 2139
Private, London Regiment, 1st/24th Battalion
Died aged 18 on 26 May 1915
Son of W. Charles and Jessie Porter, of 29, Carroun Rd., Clapham Rd., South Lambeth, London.
Remembered at Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France and at St Mark's Church, London
Horace Porter was also on the wooden St Mark's War Shrine erected outside the church in 1916
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Horace was still at school. He lived with his parents and 3 siblings at 29 Carroun Road: Walter Charles Porter, 46, a law clerk; Jessie Porter, 44; Reginald Porter, 18, a law clerk; Winifred Jessie Porter, 20, a blouse maker; Gertrude Annie Porter, 16, a blouse maker. Thomas Henry Hawkins, a 54-year-old law clerk, boarded with the family.