The Mystery of Cecil William Hore
Why isn’t Cecil Hore honoured on the school’s Memorial Panels? This is the great mystery that has been uncovered at Poltair School in their centenary year.
Cecil was undoubtedly a pupil of St Austell County School and he was remembered at the unveiling of the commemorative windows in 1921.
Yet twenty seven years later at the unveiling of the Memorial Panel on Thursday 11th November 1948 his name is conspicuous by its absence
Cecil was undoubtedly a pupil of St Austell County School and he was remembered at the unveiling of the commemorative windows in 1921.
Yet twenty seven years later at the unveiling of the Memorial Panel on Thursday 11th November 1948 his name is conspicuous by its absence
The Hore family farmed at Gewans (in the vicinity of what is now the by-pass garage) and had done for a number of years with Cecil’s grandfather, Thomas, being accredited with 180 acres there in the 1881 census.
Born in 1895 at Hinold (according to the 1901 census) Cecil was the younger son of William and Hannah Hore.
Cecil was part of the new intake of pupils when the school opened in 1908 and is seen as the scorer for the cricket team in this photograph from 1909. In the same year he passed the Cambridge Junior Local examinations and at that point he left school. However, he did turn out for Mr Coon’s “old boys” cricket team in 1911 when he scored one run. An all –important single as it turned out with Mr Coon’s side beating the first XI 74 runs to 73.
By then though he had started a career in banking and was employed by Capital and Counties Bank and working in one of their Devonport branches before moving to Brokenhurst in Dorset
When we next hear of Cecil the First World War is at its height and according to the school magazine of spring 1917 he had been discharged from the service. Actually the Second Lieutenant in Royal Field Artillery was not so fortunate because at the age of 23 on the 26th August 1917 he was killed at Ypres, scene of some of the bloodiest battles of the Great War.
Apparently, School was still unaware of his fatality in the spring of 1920 when Mr Jenkinson, the Head, pleaded for more information for inaccurate Roll of Honour.
In due course when the commemorative windows were unveiled Cecil was remembered but why his named was omitted from the memorial Panels in 1948 remains a mystery.
Cecil William Hore is buried at Reninghelst New Military Cemetery some 8 miles from Ypres. He is remembered on the St Austell war memorial at Holy Trinity Church.
Born in 1895 at Hinold (according to the 1901 census) Cecil was the younger son of William and Hannah Hore.
Cecil was part of the new intake of pupils when the school opened in 1908 and is seen as the scorer for the cricket team in this photograph from 1909. In the same year he passed the Cambridge Junior Local examinations and at that point he left school. However, he did turn out for Mr Coon’s “old boys” cricket team in 1911 when he scored one run. An all –important single as it turned out with Mr Coon’s side beating the first XI 74 runs to 73.
By then though he had started a career in banking and was employed by Capital and Counties Bank and working in one of their Devonport branches before moving to Brokenhurst in Dorset
When we next hear of Cecil the First World War is at its height and according to the school magazine of spring 1917 he had been discharged from the service. Actually the Second Lieutenant in Royal Field Artillery was not so fortunate because at the age of 23 on the 26th August 1917 he was killed at Ypres, scene of some of the bloodiest battles of the Great War.
Apparently, School was still unaware of his fatality in the spring of 1920 when Mr Jenkinson, the Head, pleaded for more information for inaccurate Roll of Honour.
In due course when the commemorative windows were unveiled Cecil was remembered but why his named was omitted from the memorial Panels in 1948 remains a mystery.
Cecil William Hore is buried at Reninghelst New Military Cemetery some 8 miles from Ypres. He is remembered on the St Austell war memorial at Holy Trinity Church.
Footnote: Maybe just as intriguing is the error surrounding William Nancarrow. You will note that his name is missing from the 1921 service although his death had already been reported in the school magazine of spring 1917. This was of course corrected by the 1948 memorial.