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Son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Ross NOTT of Strathfield, NSW

AWARDED MILITARY CROSS.
As one of the voluntary workors for the War Chest Fund, Mr. A. R. Nott, of David Jones and Co., had a pleasant surprise yesterday morning while 1000 cases of comforts for our soldiers were being sent away from the depot in Pitt-street. The surprise was a cablegram from London, informing him that his son, Second-lieutenant Edward Ross Nott, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, had been  awarded the military medal. Lieutenant Nott, ot Strathfield, is a gallant young Australian, who enlisted In England shortly after the outbreak of the war. He was wounded on September 26, while fighting  in France, and was sent to one of the military hospitals in London.

MILITARY CROSS HERO.
Lieut E. R. Nott's Death,
News was received by private cable on Monday of the death of a gallant young Australian—Lieutenant Edward Ross Nott, of the Yorkshire Light Infantry, son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Ross Nott, of  Strathfield, who are at present in England.
Lieutenant Nott, who died in France on the 13th inst., from wounds received in action, was last year award ed the Military Cross for bravery at Loos. He was in his 23rd year, and enlisted in England  shortly after the outbreak of the war with the King Edward Horse, transferring with a commission to the Yorkshire Light Infantry, he received his decoration for special gallantry in leading and encouraging his men, although he had been severely wounded himself. He had, after surgical treatment, to go to a military hospital in England, and upon his recovery rejoined his regiment in France,  and was taking a hand in the great offensive when the fatal wound was received.
A grandson of the late Mr E. L. Jones, and a nephew of Messrs Charles Lloyd Jones, Edward Lloyd Jones, and Eric Lloyd Jones directors of David Jones, Ltd., Lieutenant Nott was educated at the Sydney Grammar School. On leaving the school he was for six months in the office of David Jones, Ltd., of which his father was secretary, and then went on to a station near Moree, in order to gain experience, preparatory to taking up land for himself. He was travelling in England with his parents when the war broke out, and immediately volunteered for service. He was a fine type of young man, and had a  wide circle of friends in Sydney.
Lieutenant Nott's father was with him when he breathed his last.