Frederick Ernest Horne
A Private with the Royal Army Medical Corps, Frederick died on 20th of June 1942 aged 23.
Frederick was born at 6 Payne Street, South Lowestoft, on 29 March 1919, a son of Frederick James and Ethel Maud Horne. In 1921 his family lived at 4 Rant Score. Before the Second World War Frederick worked for the Co-operative Wholesale Society and the 1939 Register shows him as an analytical chemist as a food factory. In 1939 he lived with his widowed mother at 20 Lorne Park Road and later his mother lived at 61 Durban Road.
There are no specific details of which unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps Frederick served with, but by June 1942 he was at Tobruk and was killed in action. Frederick was buried at Tobruk Civil Cemetery and, in 1944,he was re-buried at Acroma Military Cemetery, later renamed Knightsbridge Military Cemetery.
Frederick Ernest Horne was the elder brother of my late father Eric Horne (died 5 January 2018) who lived at 4 Rant Score from his birth in 1928 up to 1936.
Firstly, a couple of corrections to the CWGC information:
F E Horne's mother's middle name was Maud (not Maude as shown by CWGC)
His last home address in Lowestoft was 20 Lorne Park Road; while Fred was serving overseas, the family moved to Durban Road in July 1941 after Lorne Park Road was bombed in a German air raid.
About F E Horne
Frederick Ernest Horne (known to the family as Sonny) was born on 29 March 1919 at 6 Payne Street, South Lowestoft. He was 11 years old when his father (Frederick James Horne), a cooper in the fishing industry, was lost at sea, leaving his mother Ethel to bring up Fred and his younger brothers Ernest and Eric. As the eldest, Fred became the breadwinner of the family and was a great support to his widowed mother and a near father figure to young Eric especially.
In 1930 Fred achieved his scholarship to Lowestoft Secondary School where he was a student for the next five years. On leaving school, he joined the CWS, working in their accounts office at Waveney Drive. He went on to study at the CWS College at Manchester and returned to the Waveney Drive office as an accountant before volunteering early to join the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Fred was a keen sportsman, enjoying football, cricket, tennis, swimming, angling and cycling, and sang in the choir at Christ Church.
He was engaged to be married to Peggy.
Initially, Fred was stationed with the RAMC in the north of England, and wrote home describing how his unit had helped with the aftermath of a heavy air raid in Leeds, assisting the injured and collecting the bodies of those who had died.
After a few days back home on embarkation leave, Fred was posted abroad to North Africa where the Eighth Army was defending British positions from attack by Rommel's Afrika Korps and associated Italian divisions. Eventually, under heavy land and air attack, the British and allied South African and Indian forces retreated to inside the Tobruk perimeter and it was during the final assault on 20 June 1942 that Fred was killed. The following day, the whole garrison of some 33,000 men surrendered. CREDIT:Brian Horne
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According to Page 36 of the…
According to Page 36 of the
Memorial Register Libya, The War Dead of The British Commonwealth and Empire 1939-1945 Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Part II
Ethel's middle name is indeed MAUDE. I cannot see how to add a photo to show this.
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Re Martin's comment: Yes, I…
Re Martin's comment: Yes, I've seen that entry. It's not correct, Ethel Horne's middle name was Maud (not Maude).
@Joe - could you please add Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) to the very first line 'A Private with. '
Just to add that Fred Horne…
Just to add that Fred Horne was the nephew of Ernest Samuel Crouch who died in WW1 on 27 March 1917 in Palestine and whose Our Fallen entry was featured here last week.
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