Participant Info

Surname

Gross

First Name

Joshua

Initial

C

Service Number

20896

Rank

private

Unit Served

15th Field Engineers, 5th Division

Service Record

France

Enlistment Date

1917

Enlistment Month

August 14

Embarkation Year

1917

Embarkation Month

November 16

Date of Death

1918

Month of Death

September 29

Death Category

KIA

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 55, image page 54

Also Known As

Spousal

Mrs. Mary Gross

Spousal Address

41 Sloane Street, Summer Hill

Spouse City

Sydney

Spouse State

NSW

Parental Name

Parental Address

Frank and Mary Gross

Parental City

Emmaville

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Strathbogie, Victoria, November 2, 1879, school teacher, enlisted August 1917, embarked November 16, 1917.War service: France.Private J. C. Gross made the supreme sacrifice on the Hindenburg line, September 29, 1918, being in France only six weeks