Tuesday, 16 June 2026

37616 Private Thomas Robert Horne, (26/5/1915-23/11/1941). "at great cost"

By nightfall part of Point 175 had been captured at great cost. The casualties exceeded 400 and included more than 350 — about 100 of them killed or mortally wounded — in 25 Battalion alone. Eleven men were missing from 9 Platoon, and of these at least six (Daly, Ralfe, Lee, Horne, Johnston and Taylor) were dead.  -Official History of 27 Battalion.




Point 175 was one of the many otherwise anonymous places in North Africa, taken after unexpectedly high numbers of troops defending it were overcome.  Thomas Horne was reported as missing after the fight, eventually reported "killed in action" in February 1942.


Timaru Cemetery.

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