Nothing is known about Henry ‘Harry’ Raymond Homer’s playing career, except that it was mentioned in his obituary. The Brisbane Courier on 29 November 1915 reported that Homer had died from illness in the Dardanelles, and was “well known in sporting circless, having been a keen ‘Soccer’ football player.”
There were approximately 60 soccer clubs in Brisbane in 1914, but the vast majority only had their results published by the newspapers with no team line-ups. The earliest Homer seen playing soccer was his brother Lauderdale for Wellingtons In 1915.
Homer was a 19-year-old carpenter when he enlisted in November 1914, one of five brothers who enlisted, of which three served overseas. In April 1915 he saw a change of rank to Driver, a rank in the artillery equivalent to private, who were responsible for driving horses. Homer was initially assigned to the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, but later moved to the 7th Field Ambulance which then arrived in Gallipoli in August 1915.
He died at the No. 16 Casualty Clearing Station on 12 November 1915. The cause of death was noted as acute jaundice.