GOSS, Cecil Spencer
| Service Number: | 1042 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ross Tasmania, Australia, February 1892 |
| Home Town: | Ross, Northern Midlands, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Ross, Tasmania, Australia, 1963, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ross Anglican Cemetery, Tasmania, Australia |
| Memorials: | Hobart Tasmanian Government Railways Great War Roll of Honour, Invermay Tasmanian Government Railways Great War Honour Roll, Municipality of Ross Roll of Honour, Ross War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 1042, 15th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Corporal, 1042, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Corporal, 1042, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 4 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 1042, 15th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW knee, slight | |
| 19 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 15th Infantry Battalion | |
| 17 Feb 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 15th Infantry Battalion | |
| 2 Sep 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 15th Infantry Battalion | |
| 31 Jan 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, 15th Infantry Battalion | |
| 4 Feb 1919: | Honoured Military Cross, German Spring Offensive 1918, At Hebuterne on the night of 26/27th March 1918. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When in command of a company, he brushed aside enemy patrols and snipers, and established such a well selected position that he smashed an enemy attack with Lewis gun and rifle fire |
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Lt CECIL SPENCER GOSS MC
Cecil Goss enlisted in the 15th Battalion in September 1914, at the age of 22. His parents were John and Elizabeth (nee Double) of Ross. Cecil worked as a labourer before the war.
Cecil briefly saw service in the Gallipoli campaign being wounded in May 1915. He was treated in hospital in London, rejoining the Battalion in December. He arrived in France in June 1916, and in May 1917 was promoted to Lieutenant. later that year, he was trained in handling the Lewis machine gun. In March 1918, he was awarded the Military Cross, when, in occupying the village of Hebuterne, he led his company to establish a position to 'smash an enemy attack with Lewis-gun and rifle fire'. He ended the war with the rank of Captain.
After the war Cecil returned to Ross and in 1921 married Gladys Steer, an assistant teacher at the Ross School. Cecil received a grant of land in the Carlton area, under the Returned Soldier Settlement Scheme, where he farmed sheep. He died in 1963.
Cecil's story is part of our exhibition: Our Grateful Thanks and Loving Remembrance, a moving and deeply personal exhibition remembering the soldiers whose names are immortalised on the Ross War Memorial.
http://www.taswoolcentre.com.au/…/new-exhibition-at-the-tas…
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