Clarence Charles Horne

Forenames

Clarence Charles AWMM

Surname

Horne AWMM

Also known as

Charlie AWMM

Service number

25883 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe

Iwi Māori, Māori AWMM

Date of birth

B. 1910

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Place of birth

Gisborne

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Birth notes

son of Clarence Prior & Annie HORNE of Gisborne

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Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Moanui, Matawai, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mr C.B. Horne (father), 62 Childers Road, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Unknown AWMM Divorced AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Campaign

Greece AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

25883 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Labourer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Temporary Corporal AWMM 28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF), 4th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

Private AWMM
28 (Maori) Battalion, C Company AWMM

Clarence Charles Horne was the son of C. P. Horne and Annie Horne, of Gisborne, Poverty Bay, New Zealand. AWMM

Death

18 May 1941 AWMM
Age  31 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Obituary

Private Clarence Charles Horne, presumed killed in action, previously missing, enrolled from Matawai, and was a married man 30 years of age. He served first with a special New Zealand force in the Pacific and Inter trained for service in the Middle East, where he was posted mussing in 1941.

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Memorial name

• Athens Memorial, Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens, Greece AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 2 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• 28th Maori Battalion Website 1941-1945
  http://www.28maoribattalion.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2106596
  Sources Used
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington: Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch. Digital copy.
  https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20210104000423/http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Maor.html
  Further Reference

References

• Auckland Museum. Roll of Honour, Auckland Province, 1939 - 1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 93/139.
• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 3 (Embarkations from 1st July, 1940 to 31st March, 1941). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 3: WW2 223
• Soutar, M. (2008). Nga tama toa = The price of citizenship : C Company 28 (Maori) Battalion 1939-1945. Albany, N.Z.: David Bateman.
  Portrait published in Soutar (2008)
• Cody, J. (1956). 28 (Maori) Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• McClymont, W. (1959). To Greece. Wellington, N.Z.: Department Internal Affairs, War History Branch.