Mrs E A Horne

Notebook concerning her organisation of the 'SOS Club' for the wives and widows of officer prisoners of war in the Far East, January 1943 - January 1949, including details of the club's meetings in London, addresses of and correspondence with members, among them the widow of Major General M B Beckwith-Smith, and lists of officer prisoners of war known to be held in Singapore and Thailand; together with ms and ts transcripts of letters from men associated with her husband, Captain L E Horne RASC, who died as a prisoner of war in Thailand on 4 December 1943, a ts transcript (2pp) of a Japanese propaganda broadcast from Singapore in April 1944 by a Major Gourley describing life as a prisoner of war in the Far East and a ts transcript (4pp) of a broadcast in September 1945 by an Army chaplain, the Reverend J N Duckworth, describing his and his fellow prisoners' experiences in Thailand.

<p>IWM Photograph Archive, Refs. (DOC 217)</p>

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Mrs Horne's husband, Captain L E 'Trader' Horne, was captured at the fall of Singapore while serving with the RASC, was forced to work on the Burma-Siam railway and died as a prisoner of war on 5 December 1943.

During the Second World War Mrs Horne organised a series of meetings in London of a number of wives and widows of officers imprisoned in the Far East and the papers relate to the meetings and to the death of her husband in captivity.