Name
Wallace Henry Goss
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/10/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
65204
Royal Fusiliers *1
10th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 28 to 30 and 162 to 162A and 163A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints Church Roll of Honour, Sandon, All Saints Church Clock, Sandon
Pre War
Son of John and Martha Goss of Church End, Sandon.
Husband of Rosina Maria Goss of 17 Chippenham Gardens, Kilburn, London.
He enlisted in Finchley.
Wartime Service
Formally 69063, 106th Training Reserve Btn. Died Friday 5th. October 1917.aged 31.
From Passchendaele-day by day by Chris McCarthy.
Thursday 4th.. October 1917 Temperature 60.F. Rainfall 4.6mm.
Battle of Broodseinde.
1X Corps. 37th. Div. 111 Brigade.
Attacked with the 13th King’s Royal Rifle Corps and the 13th. Royal fusiliers, supported by the 10th. Royal Fusiliers. Attacking at 6 am. they came under fire from a blockhouse and Lewis Farm, which had been missed by the barrage. This hindered the Fusiliers as they performed a wheeling manoeuvre with the aim of taking the dug-outs strung out in the northern part of Gheluvelt wood. As they wheeled they came under increased fire from Lewis Farm and the blockhouse and were forced to dig in short of their final objective. The 13th KRRC advanced and occupied Tower Trench but were unable to hold it, being held up by machine-gun fire from their objective, Lewis Farm.
This area is about 4 ½ miles east of Ypres in Belgium and just south of the notorious Menin Road.
This action took place on the day before Wallace was said to have died, so he may have died from wounds received in that action. As his body was not found, he is commemorated alongside 35,000 other missing soldiers at the vast Tyne Cot Memorial , N.E. of Ypres, Belgium.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Hackney).
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Jean Handley
