Amy Horton

The work of the WRAF was divided into four basic trades: Clerks and Storewomen, Household, Technical and Non-Technical. Initially little training was given with wages based on existing experience and skills. Amy was a 'Distributing Clerk' when she signed up on 19th January 1918.

Together with the Royal Air Force, the WRAF was officially constituted on 1 April 1918.1 It was agreed that existing members of Women's Royal Naval Service and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps who had been recruited to Royal Navy Air Service and Royal Flying Corps would be transferred as far as possible to the new service, though women who transferred should keep their old uniforms until they were worn out, with a badge only to distinguish them. The 19th January 1918 was the date when many women were transfered, as it appears Amy was.

Amy had two children - Bernard (Born 24th September 1913) and Eric Horton (27th June 1909), neither of which are remembered on her shared grave with her husband, Henry Francis Horton. Henry went on to marry Ida and had a further child, Harold, who died in 1943, also buried at Lodge Hill Cemetery. We have not discovered how Amy or her two children died. Given the year she died in 1918, and her age (29) she, and possibly her children, might have died from Influenza.