Private Horatio Rice
Horatio Rice was born on 7 April 1895 at 33 Rowland Street, Belfast, the third of nine children of plasterer Horatio Rice and his wife Margaret (née Wilson). (His father also had two children by a previous marriage.) At the time of the 1911 Census he was living at 22 Donegall Avenue, Belfast, with his parents, seven siblings and a half-brother, and working as a message boy.
Rice enlisted in the North Irish Horse on 11 November 1915 (No.1843 – later Corps of Hussars No.71587).
He embarked for France between 1916 and 1918, remaining with the regiment until the end of the war.
On 10 March 1919 he was demobilised and transferred to Class Z, Army Reserve.
On 2 October 1929 he married Elizabeth Milliken in St Andrew's Church of Ireland Parish Church, Belfast. At the time he was living at 22 Donegall Avenue and working as a labourer. He died on 4 January 1984 at his home, 116 Ulsterville Avenue, and was buried in the Roselawn Cemetery, Belfast.
Image sourced from the Find a Grave website, via Robert Mitchell.
This page last updated 8 July 2026.