Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
MOSS, HERBERT, Private, No. 126, A Company, 8th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, eldest son of Herbert Moss, of 182, Queen's Road, Upton Park, by his wife, Emily Ann, daughter of the late John Samuel Field; born New Eltham, co. Kent, 29 June, 1894; educated Stock Street Schools, Albert Road, Plaistow; went to Australia, 6 May, 1912, and when war broke out was employed on a farm belonging to Mrs. J. Greenbank, in Snake Valley, Victoria. He at once volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; sailed for Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day, being shot through the forehead in a charge; unmarried. Letters from his former employer and from his officers and comrades speak very highly of him.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
MOSS, HERBERT, Private, No. 126, A Company, 8th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, eldest son of Herbert Moss, of 182, Queen's Road, Upton Park, by his wife, Emily Ann, daughter of the late John Samuel Field; born New Eltham, co. Kent, 29 June, 1894; educated Stock Street Schools, Albert Road, Plaistow; went to Australia, 6 May, 1912, and when war broke out was employed on a farm belonging to Mrs. J. Greenbank, in Snake Valley, Victoria. He at once volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; sailed for Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day, being shot through the forehead in a charge; unmarried. Letters from his former employer and from his officers and comrades speak very highly of him.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
MOSS, HERBERT, Private, No. 126, A Company, 8th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, eldest son of Herbert Moss, of 182, Queen's Road, Upton Park, by his wife, Emily Ann, daughter of the late John Samuel Field; born New Eltham, co. Kent, 29 June, 1894; educated Stock Street Schools, Albert Road, Plaistow; went to Australia, 6 May, 1912, and when war broke out was employed on a farm belonging to Mrs. J. Greenbank, in Snake Valley, Victoria. He at once volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; sailed for Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day, being shot through the forehead in a charge; unmarried. Letters from his former employer and from his officers and comrades speak very highly of him.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
MOSS, HERBERT, Private, No. 126, A Company, 8th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, eldest son of Herbert Moss, of 182, Queen's Road, Upton Park, by his wife, Emily Ann, daughter of the late John Samuel Field; born New Eltham, co. Kent, 29 June, 1894; educated Stock Street Schools, Albert Road, Plaistow; went to Australia, 6 May, 1912, and when war broke out was employed on a farm belonging to Mrs. J. Greenbank, in Snake Valley, Victoria. He at once volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; sailed for Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day, being shot through the forehead in a charge; unmarried. Letters from his former employer and from his officers and comrades speak very highly of him.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Gravesite Details
Private, Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Age: Unknown.
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