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HORSMAN, Arthur William Carlyle
(Service number 23/1681)

Private Arthur W C HORSMAN — (Courtesy of S Horsman )

Memorial card, Arthur W C Horsman — (Courtesy of S Horsman )

Arthur Horsman's memorial plaque — (Courtesy of S Horsman )

Arthur Horsman's service medals — Includes the British War Medal (left) and Victory Medal (right). (Courtesy of S Horsman )

Opihi College Roll of Honour — Made by Opihi College teacher David Ellena, 2015 (Courtesy of Kate Manson, Opihi College )

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant Major	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	29 July 1892	Place of Birth	Temuka (Waitohi)

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	C. Horsman (father), Otorohanga, Auckland
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZ Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	3rd Reinforcements 1st Battalion, E Company
Date	8 January 1916
Transport	Tahiti or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	15 September 1916	Age	24
Place of Death	Somme, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Caterpillar Valley (NZ) Memorial, Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Temuka War Memorial; Otorohanga Cenotaph

Biographical Notes

Son of Christopher & Amy Chamberlain Horsman of Otorohanga,. Native of Temuka.

Stuart Horsman recounts: "Arthur and Gordon [Horsman - both of which served in World War One] were my Dad’s brothers. Both were born at Waitohi Flat, as was my Dad. The family moved to Otorohanga in the King Country in about 1905, onto a 600 acre bush block. The first Otorohanga child was born in 1908, the last Waitohi Flat child in 1902, hence the 1905 guess. Both boys would have enlisted from Otorohanga."

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (March 2014); SCRoll web submission from S Horsman, 26 January 2015

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Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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