Horace Stanley Bate

• Rank: Trooper
• Service No: 7/164
• Date of Death: 17/07/1915
• Age: 42
• Regiment/Service: Canterbury Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.
• Grave Reference: II. D. 12.
• Cemetery: BEACH CEMETERY, ANZAC

Links:

• Cenotaph Record
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record
• New Zealand War Graves Project

Horace's birth NZBDM record (1881/3480) would make him age 37 at the time of his death. If he was age 42 as per his military record then he was born in 1873, this being a whole year earlier than the marriage of his parents. NZBDM also records his death (1918/36069) as being age 42. Something is obviously wrong with these records. Contributed by Grant Drummond.