Horace
Tannent
Polglase
aka Polglaze
Born in Nelson, New Zealand
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph Polglase
and Caroline (Tannant) Polglase
Brother of
Richard Thomas Polglase, Joseph William Polglase, Leonard Sylvanus Polglase, Henry Herbert Polglase, George Davies Polglase, Ernest Arthur Polglase, Rubina (Polglase) Mathers, Lillian Polglase, Alfred Edward Polglase and Nelson Polglase
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 27
in Gallipoli, Gelibolu, Çanakkale, Turkey
Profile last modified
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Horace Polglase is an Anzac who served in World War One.
Biography
Horace Polglase was Killed in Action during World War I.
Horace was born in Nelson in 1888,[1] the seventh son of Joseph Polglase and Caroline Tannant.[2] He was educated at Mangatainoka.[3]
He was a coachbuilder with Rouse and Hurrell of Wellington. He then had a business at Pongaroa. He was a Forester, a member of the Pongaroa Brass Band, and a keen bicycle racer. At the time of his enlistment he was a dairy farmer in Hamilton.[4]
He served in the NZ Army in the First World War, Service No. 12/1768.[5] He was part of the Third reinforcements.[6]
He was killed in action on 25 April 1915 during the landing at Gallipoli, Turkey and is remembered on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey.[7][8][9] He was 27.[10]
He is also remembered in the Mangatainoka Cemetery, Pahiatua, Manawatu-Wanaganui, New Zealand, where his parents lie.[11]
His death was registered in New Zealand in 1918.[12]
Sources
- ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19160708.2.81
- ↑ https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz Birth 1888/12787 Polglase Horace Tannant / Caroline&Joseph
- ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19160708.2.81
- ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19160708.2.81
- ↑ https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C12437
- ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19160708.2.81
- ↑ https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/horace-tannant-polglase
- ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/720412/HORACE%20TANNANT%20POLGLASE/
- ↑ https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE19532376
- ↑ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19160708.2.81
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171623054/horace-tennant-polglase_(memorial)
- ↑ https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz Death 1918/68319 Polglase Horace Tannant 27Y
- From handed down family tree.
- Drowned Dardenelles WW1
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