Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (1259 Pte. T. W. Horne. Ceylon Plr. R.C.) very fine, scarce to unit £100-£140

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 in the Egyptian theatre of War from 17 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. In April 1915 he was sent to Gallipoli, landing at Anzac Cove, and serving in the Peninsula till he was severely wounded in the following August. 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 than attack near Ypres, on 22 August 1917. There were no survivors of his Company, which got to the enemy second line and was then surrounded.’

Horne was attached to the 8th Battalion when he was killed in action. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.