CROSS, Hubert
| Service Number: | 2062 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1916, 3rd Reinforcements |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 40th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Emu Bay, Tasmania, Australia, 21 December 1891 |
| Home Town: | Wynyard, Waratah/Wynyard, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 8 October 1968, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2062, 40th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Reinforcements | |
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| 23 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 2062, 40th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 2062, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Melbourne | |
| 5 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2062, 40th Infantry Battalion, Boulogne, France - GSW | |
| 8 Sep 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2062, 40th Infantry Battalion, Gas Poisoning | |
| 8 Sep 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2062, 40th Infantry Battalion | |
| 12 Dec 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2062, 40th Infantry Battalion, per Nestor |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Hubert was the fourth of eight children of Thomas Herbert Cross (born 1860 in Morven, Tasmania - aka Herbert) and Emma Jane Medwin (born 1866 in Forest, Tasmania). Thomas and Emma married in 1866 in Horton, Tasmania and settled in Emu Bay where they raised their family and Thomas was a Contractor. In 1912, at Rouse's Camp in Waratah, Tasmania, Thomas committed suicide by shooting himeslef with a rifle.
By 1916, tow of Hubert's older sisters had left Tasmania to work in Victoria - Annie Beatrice was a Barmaid in Richmond before her marriage, and Lillian May was 16 years of age when she commenced work as a Housemaid in the Macedon Ranges. Lillian and her husband ran Oxford Farm - a Farm and Guesthouse at Woodend in the Macedon Ranges. During the Depression years Lillian disguised herself as a male and worked as Cook in Railway Camps. She later ran the Victory Cafe at Woodend, where younger sister Vera lived with her in 1954. Myrtle, Hubert's youngest sister farmed with her husband in Kamona, Tasmania and after his death, Myrtle was a Prospector - and was lost in the bush for ten days whilst prospecting in 1952)
Hubert was a Labourer in Lottah in Portland, Tasmania when he enlisted in the AIF in 1916 - the year his brother Reuben (Service No: 2471) died of wounds in Alexandria. Hubert served as a Private (Service No: 2062)with 3rd Reinforcements 40th Infantry Battalion in France and was twice WIA. Brother Roy also served in the AIF as a Private (Service No: 522270)
Following his Discharge in 1918, Hubert returned to Lottah in Tasmania and worked as a Miner before moving to Nabageena in Circular Head, tasmania where he worked as a Labourer. Hubert returned to Mining at St Helen's in Portland, Tasmania in 1928, following the death of his mother in 1942, Hubert married Eva Alvira McAuliffe (born 1897 in George's River, Tasmania). Hubert and Eva settled in Launceston, Tasmania where Hubert worked as a Labourer. Hubert died in 1968 and Eva in 1971.