Great War Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Officer Casualty 1914-1915 Star trio awarded to Lieutenant T.W. Horne, 3rd Battalion, attached 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders late a Private of the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps who educated at Harrow would enlist on the outbreak of war seeing service with the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps in Egypt from 17th November 1914, later landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli in April 1915 before being wounded in August 1915. He would subsequently be commissioned into the 3rd Battalion attached 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders he would killed in action on 22nd August 1917 near Ypres leading an attack, and having no known grave he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Group of 3: 1914-1915 Star; (1259 PTE. T.W. HORNE. CEYLON. PLR. R.C.) British War Medal and Victory Medal; (2. LIEUT. T.W. HORNE.)
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine
Thomas Wardlaw Horne was born in May 1886 and was educated at Harrow. He served during the Great War with the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps as a Private (No. 1259) in Egypt from 17th November 1914, before being commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders. The Harrow School Roll of Honour states ‘Second Lieutenant T.W. Horne, the only surviving son of Thomas Horne, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, and a cousin of General Lord Horne, was rubber planting in Ceylon when the War broke out. He was a member of the Ceylon Planters’ Rifles and immediately volunteered for active service, and accompanied his Regiment to Egypt, where he was present at the attack on the Suez Canal.
Horne would travel to Gallipoli in April 1915 where he would land at Anzac Cove, remaining in the peninsula until August when he was severely wounded.
In 1916 he was given a commission in the Seaforth Highlanders and served with them in Flanders, until fever caused his return to England. He then acted for some time as Musketry Instructor in Ireland, but returned to France in August 1917 and had only been a few days with his Regiment when he fell, leading his Platoon in the first wave of the attack near Ypres on 22nd August 1917. There were no survivors of his company, which got to the enemy second line and was then surrounded. He was killed in action whilst serving with 3rd Battalion attached 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders and having no known grave is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.