Name
Albert Henry Moss
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/06/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
15th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT
V. K. 9A.
France
Headstone Inscription
IN MEMORY OF THE DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF EVA M.MOSS Q'LAND
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
Albert Henry Moss was born 1899 in Barton Regis, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Moss.
In 1891 census the family were living at Hampton Street, Bristol where his father was foreman in the Cotton Works. By 1901 His father had died and his widowed mother was a Greengrocer shop keeper at 6 Kitchener Terrace, Bristol. In 1908 he had enlisted and served with Hussars of the Line under Regimental No. 3397 in England. He emigrated on 17 September 1913 to Brisbane, Australia on the ship Paporoa.
He lived in Rockhampton, Queensland and worked as a telegraph linesman. He married Eva May Scott in 1917 in Queensland.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 28 January 1916 as 2nd Lieutenant with the 15th Battalion, 25th Reinforcement.
His unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board the HMAT A20 Hororata on 14 June 1917. He died of wounds at Froincourt on 19 June 1918, age 29.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs E M Moss of "Claremont", Byres St, Newstead, Brisbane. Australia, ordered his headstone inscription: "IN MEMORY OF THE DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF EVA M.MOSS Q'LAND"
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
aif.adfa.edu.au
