Pte Bernard Horsfall, aged 21, 414193 Canadian Machine Gun Corps
from Oldham Road, Springhead,
Son of Asprilla,
buried at Ecoivres MC, Mt St Eloi, Vimy.

Pte Horsfall a farmer in Canada,
enlisted with the Canadians in Aldershot.
He was a machine gunner.
The Canadians famously combined their entire forces at Vimy,
and using new tactics, took the ridge from the Germans,
including one Cpl Adolf Hitler.
Pte Horsfall was killed with a shrapnel wound to his neck.
Ecoivres is a hospital cemetery about 5 miles behind the front line at Vimy.

Killed in Action. Private, 6th Canadian Machine Gun Company.
Struck in neck by enemy shrapnel and killed instantly.
Buried Ecoivres Military Cemetery, France

Parent's Marriage
HORSFALL Aquila
GYTE Mary H
1883 Levenshulme, St. Peter

HORSFALL Bernard
Mother's Maiden Name GYTE
Born 1896 Delph, Saddleworth

Bernard Horsfall
Birth Date: 29 Apr 1896
Baptism Date: 29 May 1896
Baptism Place: Levenshulme, St Peter, Lancashire
Father: Aquila Horsfall - a Mill Manager - of Lees, Oldham
Mother: Mary Hannah Horsfall

1901 Census
Spring Villa, Springhead, Oldham
Aquilla Horsfall 42 - Cotton Spinning
Mary H Horsfall 43
George G Horsfall 16 - Learning Cotton Spinning
Harbert Horsfall 15
Alice M Horsfall 13
Maurice Horsfall 12
Arthur C Horsfall 7
Bernard Horsfall 4

1911 Census
Spring Villa, Springhead, Oldham
Aquila Horsfall 52: Manager Cotton Mill
Mary Hannah Horsfall 53
George Gyte Horsfall 26 - Carder
Herbert Horsfall 25 - Clerk
Alice Maud Horsfall 23
Maurice Horsfall 22 - Clerk
Arthur Adriel Horsfall 17 - Clerk
Bernard Horsfall 14 - School

Attested
31 May 1915
in Aldershot
Occupation - Farmer

Full Service Record - 44 pages
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/search.aspx

Private Bernard Horsfall
414193
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Born:
April 29, 1896
Commemorated on Page 258 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
Cemetery:
ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference:
V. E. 25.
Location:
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915. Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line.
The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.