Gore*, Arthur Holmes

GORE,

ARTHUR HOLMES

BORN 19 JANUARY 1871

Arthur Holmes Gore was born

19 January 1871, in Leyton, Essex, son of Thomas Holmes Gore (Solicitor b 1837, Kent) and Ellen Martyn Gore (née Wild b 1830, Kent). Ellen and Thomas were married on 26 April 1860 in East Peckham, Kent. Ellen, at that time a widow, had previously been married to Thomas Hugh Boorman and they had three children Walter H Boorman (b 1853 in Kent), Herbert W Boorman (b 1854 in Kent) and Blanche E Boorman (b 1855 in Kent).

Thomas Holmes Gore and Ellen Martyn Gore had five children: Beatrice Margaret Holmes (b 1862 in Margate Kent) and Caroline Edith (b 1863 in Kent), Hugh Holmes (b 7 June 1864 in Kent), Arthur Holmes and Gerard Holmes (b 1873 in Leyton Essex). By 1871 the family were living at Vicarage Road, Leyton, West Ham, London, but by 1881 the family had moved to 31, Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton, Bristol.

Arthur and his brother Hugh both attended the School. Arthur joined on 20 January 1880, aged 9, leaving December 1881, aged 10. Hugh attended from 12 May 1880 to April 1882.They were keen sportsmen and played rugby for the School. By 1891 Arthur was a law student.

In 1893 Arthur passed the Final Examination of the Incorporated Law Society, qualifying as a solicitor. In 1894 Arthur Holmes Gore married Elsie Alice M Beatty (b 1860) in Liverpool. Census records show that by 1901 Arthur Holmes-Gore and Elsie Holmes-Gore were both actors and living at 16 Faraday Mansions, Queens Club Gardens, West Kensington, with a daughter Dorothy Elise (b 1896 in Fulham, Middlesex), who herself went on to be an actress Dorothy Holmes-Gore. Arthur was an actor in the theatre in the period 1906 to 1915, working in Britain and the USA.

In 1911 Arthur and Elsie were living at a hotel 139-141, Kings Road, Brighton. In January 1915, he had to cut short his appearance in ‘The Flag Lieutenant’ at the Haymarket Theatre, London to take up a commission. Arthur joined the Hampshire Regiment, 8th Battalion (Isle of Wight Rifles), this was gazetted on 27 January 1915.

Arthur Holmes Gore, postcard portrait below.

Captain Gore was killed in action at

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CONT. GORE, ARTHUR HOLMES

BORN 19 JANUARY 1871

Gallipoli 12 August 1915, aged 44 and remembered with Honour at the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.

He is also recorded on the Memorials at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight and Drill Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight.

The Photo below was published in 1915 and shows the officers of the 1st/8th Battalion of The Hampshire Regiment, Arthur is top row and third from the right hand end.

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