Horace Waterman was one of five brothers from London who lived at Walkerville, just east of Adelaide, after emigrating in 1912. Allen was the star player before the war – Horace played occasionally with the St Peters club but his involvement with the game would continue longer.
A plasterer, Horace enlisted in late 1915, about the same time as his brother, and served in the 5th Pioneer Battalion. His service seems to have been free of major incidents, apart from one occasion of “overstayed leave”.
He returned to Adelaide in mid 1919. He had married Rosamund Jones in 1913, and they had two sons born in 1921 and 1922. Horace, like Allen, continued playing after the war, and both were seen in published team lists playing for North Adelaide, Rangers and later the Veteran Players’ Association. A St Peters club was revived for one season in 1924, but the Watermans did not seem to be involved with it.
A family tragedy in 1927 saw Rosamund Waterman die, at the age of 40, a day after giving birth to a daughter.
By 1939 Horace Waterman was a member of the executive committee of the SA Soccer Football Association. In that role he attended a gala ball at the Grosvenor Hotel to welcome the “Palestine” soccer team. He continued as a member of the controversial Board of Control in 1940 after the SASFA constitution had been suspended for the duration of the Second World War. In 1950 he was made a life member of the SA Soccer Association.
Horace Waterman was the manager of a successful building company, and died in Adelaide in 1965.