Born at Kennington, London, the son of John and Sarah Horn.
Enlisted into the 3rd Light Dragoons on the 23rd of March 1850. Regimental No. 2068.
No other enlistment details are shown.
Volunteered into the 4th Light Dragoons on the 1st of July 1853.
Sent to Scutari on the 20th of January 1855 and died there on the 3rd of February 1855.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
A medal with clasps for A. B. and I., was offered in a Spink's list in May of 1910 and an impressed naming medal with the same clasps was in a Hayward's list for December of 1968.
A Crimean medal named to "Henry Horn. 4th Lt. Dragns." is known to be in an English collection (1979) It could well be that all three medals are one and the same, except that in Hayward's list the word "Dragoons" was said to be in full.
An "officially impressed" medal with the clasps for A. B. and I, and named to "Henry Horn. 4th Lt. Dragns." appeared again in a Christie's auction on the 14th of March 1989. This same medal appeared again in a Spink's list for November of 2000, (Lot 186) but now said that the surname has been "double-struck."