MARRINER, Horace Alfred
| Service Number: | 3088 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 July 1915, 3 years Senior Cadets & 63rd Bn |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 46th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, December 1893 |
| Home Town: | Collingwood, Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bootmaker |
| Died: | Died of wounds , 47th Casualty Clearing Station, Crouy-Sur-Somme, France, 8 July 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme Plot III, Row E, Grave No. 13 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3088, 14th Infantry Battalion, 3 years Senior Cadets & 63rd Bn | |
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| 16 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3088, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3088, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne | |
| 8 Jul 1918: | Involvement Private, 3088, 46th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3088 awm_unit: 46th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-07-08 |
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From How We Served
3088 Private Horace Alfred Marriner of Collingwood, Victoria had been employed as a bootmaker and raised his age up by three years when he enlisted for War Service on the 12th of July 1915.
Horace was allocated to reinforcement for the 14th Battalion, 1st AIF and was embarked for further training in Egypt on the 16th of October.
After joining his Unit in the desert on the 4th of February 1916, Horace was soon transferred over to the 46th Battalion and joined his newly allocated unit in the field on the 5th of March 1916.
Following his training in the desert Horace was embarked for France on the 8th of June and would go on to serve continuously in the trenches throughout France & Belgium, aside should periods of hospitalisation after which he would be returned to his Unit.
Horace was seriously Wounded in Action on the 8th of July 1918.
Having received multiple shrapnel wounds to his head, abdomen and thigh. He was immediately evacuated to the rear where he died of wounds later the same day after having been admitted into the 47th Casualty Clearing Station. Horace was aged 21.
Horace was availed a formal buriall, and he now rests to this day within the Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy St Pierre, Amiens, Picardie, France.
Back home in Australia, Horace's grieving parents added a private commemoration in memory of his self-sacrifice during the 'Great War' at the family's collective burial site within Coburg General Cemetery, Victoria.
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