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MOSS, Hayward Seymour
| Service Numbers: | 3101, 3031 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 March 1917, Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Prospect, South Australia, 1 September 1899 |
| Home Town: | Prospect (SA), Prospect, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storeman |
| Died: | Natural causes, Wayville, Unley, South Australia, 17 August 1953, aged 53 years |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia General AA, Path J, Grave 767 |
| Memorials: | Enfield Methodist Church Honour Roll, Nailsworth Primary School Great War Roll of Honour, Prospect Roll of Honour G-Z WWI Board |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Mar 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide | |
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| 23 Jun 1917: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 3101, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' |
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| 23 Jun 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3101, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide | |
| 8 Aug 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 3031, 43rd Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days" | |
| 20 Jan 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge
Lance Corporal heywood S Moss youngest son of Mrs Samuael Moss of Harvey Street Prospect returned on the Nestor 1919. He was 20 years old and had served for 2 yaers and 6 months. There were 13 eligible men in the Moss family eligible to enlist 12 did so. Heywood two brother returned but his cousins Lieutenant AH Moss of Smithfield; Lance Corporal WJ Moss of Salisbury; and Signaller Sl Moss of Renmark made the supreme sacrifice. Three were only 17 years six months when they were accepted for service. Eleven sailed for active service, butMmedal and five were made non-commisioned officers.
Biography
Heywood Moss had been born in Prospect in 1899 and at the time of enlistment he listed his next of kin as his mother still resident in Harvey Street Prospect.
He had two older brothers who also enlisted: Samuel Graham Moss (wwwhttp) and Alwyn Elliot Moss. (www.rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au) All three survived the war.
He had like most men of the time had some prior service through the Universal Training System in his case with the 80th Infantry Regiment of the militia
Heywood Moss enlisted in Adelaide and was assigned to the 7th Reinforcements for the 43rd Battalion. He embarked with them on the 23rd June 1917 on the HMAT Borda A30. The same ship had conveyed his two older brothers to war 18 months previously.
After training on the Salisbury Plain in the UK at Sutton Veny, Heywood deployed to France and was taken on strength by the 43rd Battalion on 18 January 1918. Apart from a short period of hospitalisation in February 1918, he served throughout the campaigns of 1918 until war's end in November.
Active service details to follow.........
Because he had been a relatively late arrival he was well down the queue for return to Australia and he remained in the UK nearly a full year before it was his turn to return home. He returned to Australia on the ship "Nestor" embarking on 1 November 1919 and arriving in Adelaide on the 12th December 1919.
Heywood Moss was a member of the RSL from 1919 through until just before his death in 1953. He had been recorded as a Member of Barmera sub branch but was resident at 14 Tevalyan St Wayville at the time of his death in 1953.
British War Medal 20595
Victory Medal 20134
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