Horatio was born in 1877 at North Adelaide to William White and Kate Mitchell.[1]
Horatio was a 27 year old painter when he married Elsie May Bratchell at the District Registrar's residence at Norwood.[2] Their only child, Edna, was born three and one half months later, on 28th July 1905 at Campbelltown.[3]
Horatio enlisted on 8th September 1915 for the Australian Imperial Force in the Great War.[4] He embarked for Europe on 7th February 1916,[5] and was never seen again by his family. On 19th December 1917 Horatio died of wounds caused by a hand grenade.[6]
Horatio is buried at Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.[7]
https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/50769
Requested examination of attestation paper 19 Apr 2020
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A. Limb, A history of the 10th Battalion, A.I.F. (London: Cassell & Company, 1919).; C.B.L. Lock, The fighting 10th: a South Australian centenary souvenir of the 10th Battalion, AIF, 1914-1919 (Adelaide, Webb & Son, 1936).
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