{"id":3510,"date":"2018-04-24T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/?page_id=3510"},"modified":"2022-11-16T11:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T18:34:01","slug":"augustus-francis-horn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/the-biographies\/augustus-francis-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"Augustus Francis Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Nyack, New York, January 20, 1897 [1895?] \u2013 Boston [?], September 9, 1959).1<\/a><\/p>\n

Horn was born, apparently an only child, in Nyack, a village on the Hudson about twenty miles north of Manhattan; by 1900 he and his parents were living in Manhattan.2<\/a>\u00a0His father, Augustus E. Horn, worked as a barber on the American Line\u2019s S.S.\u00a0St. Louis<\/i>, which had regular routes between New York and Liverpool and Southampton.3<\/a><\/p>\n

Horn\u2019s birth year appears on the 1900 and 1910 censuses as 1897, and I find no draft registration for him, suggesting he was too young to be required to register on June 5, 1917.4<\/a>\u00a0However, in the\u00a0New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919<\/i>\u00a0 his age is given as twenty-two in February of 1917, indicating a birth date of 1895.5<\/a><\/p>\n

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One of two cards for Horn among the New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This could be an error, but it probably means that Horn pushed his birth date back when he enlisted.\u00a0 I have found no record of college attendance. He went to ground school at Kelly Field at the University of Texas and graduated August 25, 1917.6<\/a><\/p>\n

There were about thirty-six men in Horn\u2019s ground school class; ten, including Horn, chose or were chosen for training in Italy, and these ten were among the 150 men of the \u201cItalian\u201d or \u201csecond Oxford detachment\u201d who sailed to England on the Carmania<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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From p. 9 of the Poughkeepsie Eagle-News of November 9, 1917.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They left New York September 18, 1917, and arrived at Liverpool October 2, 1917.\u00a0There they learned that they were not bound for Italy but instead were ordered to Oxford, where they attended ground school (again).<\/p>\n

The\u00a0War Birds<\/i> entry for November 18, 1917, includes the remark that \u201cI saw Horn, Knox, Taber, Roth, Neely, Watts and a couple of others,\u201d implicitly while the writer was at Stamford. Coupled with the fact that Horn\u2019s name does not appear on fellow detachment member Fremont Cutler Foss\u2019s lists of men assigned to squadrons from Grantham, this suggests that Horn was among the twenty men selected by Elliott White Springs to go directly from Oxford to Stamford for flight training in early November and that he was thus not among the men who went from Oxford to Grantham.7<\/a>\u00a0I have found no other information about Horn\u2019s training in Great Britain. He was one of many cadets whose appointments as first lieutenants Pershing recommended in a cable dated April 8, 1918; the appointments were confirmed in a cable dated May 13, 1918.8<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0A brief mention by Joseph Kirkbride Milnor in his diary on June 12, 1918, suggests that Horn was in Lincoln:\u00a0 they had dinner at the Albion there.\u00a0 Horn appears not to have been assigned to an operational squadron, but to have been assigned to the A.E.F.\u2019s Services of Supply, probably in early August 1918.9<\/a><\/p>\n

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The second of two cards for Horn from New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On December 21, 1918, Horn boarded the S.S.\u00a0Antigone<\/i>\u00a0at St. Nazaire for the trip back to the U.S., arriving at Newport News, Virginia, January 3, 1919.10<\/a>\u00a0His World War II draft registration shows him the owner of Grafmar Kennels near Boston, and he and his second wife became well known as breeders of Weimaraners.11<\/a><\/p>\n

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Notes<\/h3>\n

(For complete bibliographic entries, please consult the list of\u00a0works and web pages cited<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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1<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0For Horn\u2019s place and probable date of birth (1897), see Ancestry.com, U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942<\/i>, record for Augustus Francis Horn.\u00a0 See the discussion in text regarding his year of birth. For his date of death, see Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936\u20132007<\/i>, record for Augustus F Horn. His place of death is surmise.\u00a0 I have not been able to find a photo of him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Ancestry.com,\u00a01900 United States Federal Census<\/i>, record for Augustus Horn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Ancestry.com,\u00a0Applications for Seaman’s Protection Certificates, 1916-1940<\/i>, record for Augustus E. Horn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Ancestry.com,\u00a01910 United States Federal Census<\/i>, record for Augustus F Horn; see above for 1900 census.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Ancestry.com,\u00a0New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917\u20131919<\/i>, record for Augustus F Horn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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6<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cGround School Graduations [for August 25, 1917].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See Foss, diary entry for November 15, 1917; and Foss, \u201cCadets of Italian Detachment Posted Dec 3rd<\/sup>\u201d (in Foss, Papers).\u00a0\u00a0Note:\u00a0 The Captain Horn mentioned in War Birds<\/em> is Spencer Bertram Horn who flew with No. 85 Squadron R.A.F.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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8<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Cablegrams 874-S and 1303-R.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See Ancestry.com,\u00a0New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917\u20131919<\/i>, record for Augustus F Horn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0War Department, Office of the Quartermaster General, Army Transport Service, Lists of Incoming Passengers, 1917 – 1938<\/i>, Passenger list, S. S.\u00a0Antigone.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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11<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See\u00a0Arkansas Weimaraner Rescue<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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