Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 12/08/1914
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 06/04/1882
- Place of Birth
- Balmain NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
- Occupation
- Groom
- Next of Kin
- Mrs. Helen E. Cross (wife), Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 33869
- Final Unit
- 127th Battery, Royal Field Artillery
Notes
Cross was employed at the Royal Military College, Duntroon as a groom from July 1913 until July 1923 (excluding his war service). He and his wife Helen also ran a boarding house near Duntroon. Cross was an Imperial Reservist and was called up when the war began. He sailed for England on the 'Miltiades' on 17 October 1914 and served with the 127th Battery of the Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front. During 1915 to 1918 they fought at Ypres, the Somme, Arras and Hazebrouck.
After the war he returned to Canberra and lived at the Causeway and Ainslie. He also served in World War 2 giving his year of birth as 1884. He died at home on 14 January 1962 aged 79 years and is buried in Woden Cemetery.
Sources
NAA RecordSearch - Series MT1487/1 (Service records and correspondence concerning Australians serving with other Imperial forces, World War 1)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B884 (Citizen's Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947)
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
National Archives (A206) Volume 9 [Federal Capital (Yass-Canberra district). Copies of correspondence, reports etc subsequent to passing of 'Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909 (NSW)' and 'Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909 (Commonwealth)'] - folio 95, 1913 FCT Census
The Canberra Times - 15 January 1962
Canberra Public Cemeteries http://www.canberracemeteries.com.au/cem_gravesearch.asp
The Wartime Memories Project, 127th Battery, Royal Field Artillery - www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/battalion.php?pid=11366 . Viewed Feb 2017.