Ernest Cecil FOSS

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FOSS, Ernest Cecil

Service Number:	5969
Enlisted:	29 January 1916, Perth, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, 1884
Home Town:	Subiaco, Nedlands, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer & Agent
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 3 June 1918
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated in St George's Cathedral, Perth, WA, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bruce Rock District WW1 Roll of Honour, Bruce Rock Memorial of Honour, Bruce Rock War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

29 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Perth, Western Australia
7 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5969, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: ''
7 Aug 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5969, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle
3 Jun 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 5969, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5969 awm_unit: 11 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-06-03

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Biography

"..5969 Corporal (Cpl) Ernest Cecil Foss, 11th Battalion. A farmer from Subiaco, WA prior to enlistment, Cpl Foss embarked with the rank of Private with the 19th Reinforcements from Fremantle on HMAT Miltiades on 7 August 1916. Subsequent to his promotion to Corporal, he was killed in action on 3 June 1918, aged 33, and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. His two brothers, Captain Cecil Maitland Foss and Second Lieutenant Henry Clinton Foss, both of the 28th Battalion, were also killed in action." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

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