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Horace Lockyear was born the 4 May 1897, the second son of Francis William and Ada Lockyear, the daughter of James Thirsk of Beverley, a corn merchant. Francis was a marine engineer, born in Christchurch, New Zealand with links to the East Riding. His mother, the former Ellen Chapman, was born in Brandesburton and had returned to Great Britain prior to the 1881 census, which shows her as a widow living at 18 Willow Grove, Beverley with her children. Horace and his family had moved to Hull by 1901. Prior joining the army he had worked as a junior clerk for the Hull Property Committee in the Hull Town Clerk's Department.
After enlistment he served in the East Yorkshire Yeomanry and was promoted to the rank of Corporal. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 29 Aug 1917 and transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment. Second Lieutenant Lockyear was killed in action on 20 May 1918 and is buried in the Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Departmente du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Horace's elder brother, Francis James Lockyear, also served in the Army, he reached the rank of Lieutenant in the York and Lancaster Regiment. The 1939 register shows him living in Hull with his wife May and working for Hull City Council.
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