Captain Maurice Brodie HOARE
2/5th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and Labour Corps

Date of birth: 5th March 1879
Date of death: 23rd December 1950

Survived aged 71
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Maurice Brodie Hoare was born at Caterham on the 5th of March 1879 the second son of Edward Brodie Hoare MP, a banker, and Katherine (ne Parry) Brodie Hoare of Tenchley’s Manor, Limpsfield in Surrey. He was christened at St Mary's Church, Caterham on the 20th of April 1879.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until December 1892 when he went on to Repton School where he was in Brook House from January 1893 to July 1897. He went on to Trinity College Cambridge from October 1897 after which he followed his father into Lloyd's Bank.

Following the outbreak of war he applied for a commission in the 5th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment on the 26th of November 1914 and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the battalion on the 7th of December 1914. He was promoted to Lieutenant in April 1915, to Acting Captain on the 24th of August 1915 and to Captain in June 1916.

He landed in France in January 1917 where he was employed in the training of reserves. He was evacuated from his unit on the 10th of February 1917 and embarked on board the Hospital Ship "Glentully Castle" at le Havre on the 17th of February, arriving at Southampton on the 19th of February. He returned to France in May 1917 and was seconded on the 20th of June 1917.

By June 1918 he was serving with the Labour Corps attached to 33rd Division and was involved in the salvaging of shells. On the 6th of June 1918 he took over an area of Poperinghe when it came under very heavy shelling over three nights which demolished huts and damaged a railway train. As a result he was deprived of sleep. At 12.30am on the night of the 11th of June he sleepwalked, which he had been prone to as a youth, and fell out of a first storey window, badly breaking his left leg. He was admitted to 1/2nd West Riding Field Ambulance and was evacuated to England from Boulogne on the 2nd of July 1918, landing at Dover later the same day.

A Medical Board which sat at 5th London General Hospital on the 30th of July 1918 to report on his case: -

"He fell from a window in consequence of sleep walking. An impacted fracture of the neck and of left femur resulted: also an attack of bronchitis. Massage and passive movement have now begun and progress is satisfactory. There is some eversion of foot and X-Ray shows backward displacement of neck and upper end of shaft of femur".

On the 12th of October 1918 a report from St Thomas' Hospital, London noted: -

"Since date of last Board (July 30th 1918) slow recovery has occurred, but the foot remains moderately everted and movements at hips are impaired. He can only walk with support."

He was sent for convalescence at Lady Ridley’s Hospital in Carlton Terrace and, after a long period in hospital, he went to the South of France for further convalescence at the end of the war. He relinquished his commission due to ill health brought on by his injuries on the 19th of December 1918.

A further Medical Board was convened at the War Office on the 19th of June 1919: -

"Present condition. No nervous symptoms and he is in good health. There is slight shortening of the lower left limb, with fixed ext. rotation so that the foot cannot be fully internally rotated."

His left leg had lost half an inch of its length and he walked thereafter with a stick. After the war he returned to Lloyds Bank as a sub manager in the Cheapside Branch. He worked for the Lloyd's for over forty years, becoming Treasurer in 1926 and retiring in 1939. He lived at Chart Cottage, Hambledon in Surrey.

His brother, Captain Alan Brodie Hoare 2/5th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, was killed in action on the 26th of October 1917.

Went on to Repton School

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