Hore was wounded in the battle but was soon returned to Gallipoli. In a letter he wrote to his mother while on the hospital ship he described the tragedy at the Nek:‘Truly we have been through the valley of the shadow of death as our Regiment has been cut to pieces and all our officers killed or wounded except two, out of eighteen officers present twelve were killed and four wounded ... Our Colonel was killed, one Major killed, the other wounded, the only Captain (myself) wounded and ten subalterns killed and three wounded leaving two officers not hit, killed or wounded, and about five percent of the men. And so perished the 8th Light Horse.’

LSF Hore, letter, in Cameron Simpson, Maygar’s Boys: A biographical history of the 8th Light Horse Regiment AIF 1914–19, p. 281.