Hore, RP
(1888 - 1915)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
8th December 1888
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1901 - 1904
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
129 Thurlow Park Road
REGIMENT
3rd Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment
FINAL RANK:
2nd Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
2nd October 1915
AGE AT DEATH:
26
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Hohenzollern Redoubt
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Bethune Town Cemetery, II K 3
2nd Lieutenant Ruthven Pomfret Hore
Born on December 8th 1888, Ruthven was the fifth of six children, and the second son, of stockbroker and barrister Charles Hore and his wife, Annie. Having spent four years at the Hillside School in Godalming, he came to the College in May 1901 at the same time as his elder brother, Charles. He went on to spend the next three years at Dulwich, leaving in the summer of 1904, whilst a member of the Mathematical Fifth and Remove. He took up employment as a surveyor, and subsequently went out to Canada, where, by 1909, he was working as a Surveyor for the Government of British Columbia.
In November 1914, after the declaration of war, Ruthven returned home, where he signed up as a member of the Inns of Court O.T.C. He took up a commission in the Dorsetshire Regiment, and went over to the continent for the first time with his new unit in May 1915. Later that year, on October 1st, he was seriously injured during an attack at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, and died from his wounds the following day.
