GILCHRIST, Horace William
| Service Number: | 1007 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian Horse |
| Born: | Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Willoughby, Willoughby, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Willoughby Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Enteric Fever, Bloemfontein, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 13 March 1900, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 1007 | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 1007, 1st Australian Horse |
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TROOPER GILCHRIST.
Trooper Horace William Gilchrist died at Kimberley of enteric fever. He was one of the First Australian Horse with tho Kimberley Relief column. Gilchrist was the seventh son of Major and Agnes Inglis Gilchrist, of the public school, Willoughby. Born in 1879 at the school residence at Willoughby, he received the whole of his education under his father, and entered business with a fellow a schoolmate at Wlloughby. He was filled, by the departure of his brother Charlie in the first squadron of Australian Horse, with a very strong desire to follow him. He was one of the disappointed applicants with that troop, but, nothing daunted, he succeeded in getting in the second troop.
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