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RAMC profile of:
Horace Dorest ECCLES M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
 
 


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Rank: Capt

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Attached To: 13th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles

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Also Served:

Outcome: Killed in action

Date Died: 16/08/1917
Age Died: 47

Where Buried and/or Commemorated: New Irish Farm Cemetery, St. Jean - Belgium

Awards: MiD

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Horace was educated at Guy’s Hospital - entering in 1888, he qualified in 1893. Soon after qualifying, he practiced in Natal, South Africa, where he remained for about three years before migrating to New Zealand and founding a practice in North Island. He served as Surgeon-Captain in the Boer War with the 8th New Zealand Contingent. He then returned to New Zealand, where he became Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment. At the outbreak of the Great War he offered his services to the Home Government in either a combatant or medical capacity, and was granted a Captaincy in the R.A.M.C. He was finally attached as Medical Officer to the 13th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles, with whom he remained until his death. He was mentioned in despatches a few weeks before his death. Horace was described as having a most kind and lovable nature, and was an all-round sportsman, a good shot, and a keen fly fisherman. While in the Medical School he won the three-mile race on one occasion. The chaplain of his regiment wrote “He had the heart of a lion and seemed to know no fear”. He was the youngest son of Gregory William (formally of the British museum) and Anne Hyde Eccles of 20 Melrose Road Southfields, London.


 
Additional Information: Date Added: Thursday 24 May, 2012
 
Horace's final resting place [Photograph courtesy of Mark Bannin]


  
 
 
 
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