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Enlisted 17 November 1941 in Windsor
Graduated from No. 8 SFTS on 4 December 1942
Winged and commissioned - SN J/21413
Sent to No. 1 OTU Bagotville
Posted to 129 Squadron RCAF in June 1943
Posted to the UK at the end of the year
Subsequently joining 443 Squadron
Victories included:
8 Aug 1944 (1/4 Me109)
23 Sept 1944 (one FW190 - destroyed)
29 Sept 1944 (one FW190 destroyed)
KIA 11 October 1944
Buried at Venray War Cemetery (Netherlands)
F/O Horrell took off from Antwerp with another pilot, F/O L.P. Piche, in Auster aircraft #NJ 669. They were enroute to airfield B70 to pick up a Spitfire aircraft. After checking in at B70 they were never heard from again. A German was captured later and was wearing one of the missing pilot’s identification. Flying Officer Pilot Horrell is buried in the War Cemetery at Venray, Limburg, Holland
