Northwest History. State History. Box 133. World War.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1919
• Subjects: World War One; General; Lieutenant; Walter Hornby; longest time in service; Mr and Mrs. G. N. Hornby; farmers; enlisted in canadian army; fall 1914; sent to France; active service three and a half years; many heavy engagements; Battle of Vimy Ridge; heroic sacrifices; wounded four times; lieutenants commission; course in aviation; six years from home; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; World War; 1914-1918; British Columbia; Canada; Pacific; Peace River
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Fought all Through War. Fought All Through War. Lieutenant Walter Hornby of Harvard, Idaho, enlisted in Canada In 1914. Moscow, Idaho, March 25.—Lieutenant Walter Hornby of Harvard, Idaho, holds the record for Latah county in the length of time in service during the recent world war. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Hornby, who live on a farm near Harvard. In the spring of 1913, when he was 22 years old, he went to the Peace river country, in British Columbia, to farm. In the fall of 1914, within a few weeks after war had broken out, he enlisted in the Canadian army at Calgary and the following spring was sent across to France, where he was in active service at the front practically all of the time for three and a half years. he was in many of the heaviest engagements of the war, among which was the battle of Vimy Ridge, where the Canadian troops made such heroic sacrifices. He is visiting his parents, after an absence of six years.