WHITMORE, Horace Gurned
| Service Number: | 3183 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ringarooma, Tasmania, Australia, 3 December 1892 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 3 October 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery Plot VIII, Row C, Grave 168. DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Derby WW1 Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3183, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3183, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3183, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne |
Horace Whitmore
Studio portrait of 3183 Private (Pte) Horace Gurney (Gurned) Whitmore, 10th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, of Hobart, Tas. Pte Whitmore enlisted on 4 August 1915 and embarked from Fremantle aboard HMAT Themistocles on 13 October 1915. He was wounded at Mouquet Farm, France, on 3 September 1916 and died on 3 October 1916. He was one of four brothers who served in the AIF.
Submitted 15 February 2015 by SHARON DOVE
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Horace Whitmore was one of four brothers from Derby, Tasmania, who enlisted during WW1. They were the sons of John and Annie Whitmore. He played football with the Pioneer Football Club.
Horace enlisted with his brother Walter in 1915 into the 12th Battalion. Arriving in Egypt, they were both transferred to the 52nd Battalion during March 1916 as part of the ‘doubling’ of the AIF.
Horace was severely wounded during the 52nd Battalion's assault on Mouquet Farm in early September 1916. Horace was passed through a number of dressing stations with severe abdominal wounds before he reached a General hospital on the French Coast at Boulogne. He was dangerously ill for weeks before he died of his wounds.
His brother 3184 Walter Leslie Whitmore 52nd Battalion was later awarded a D.C.M. for extraordinary gallantry at Dernancourt during the 1918 German offensive.
On older brother John William Whitmore served in the Boer War with the 1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen and enlisted again in WW1 with the 12th Battalion. Another brother George Ernest Whitmore also served with the 12th Battalion.
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