GOSS, Lionel
| Service Number: | 495 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 28 August 1882 |
| Home Town: | Condong, Tweed, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Corporal, 495, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 10 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 495, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB Draft embarked at Pinkenba 10 Mar 1901 aboard Chicago arriving Port Elizabeth 20 Apr 1901. | |
| 11 Oct 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 495, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks, Bk 4 p. 9, notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Afric arriving Brisbane 14 Oct 1901, discharged from 11 Oct 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Lionel Goss was part of a draft of men established to follow, and embarked some four days after, the main 5th QIB contingent to South Africa. The men in the draft were not included in the original nominal roll for the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives.
When Lionel Goss enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his father, Condong, Tweed River, New South Wales. In the Boer War Service Paybooks of the 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 7, it notes he directed part of his pay to his father Mr. A. H. Goss, Condong, Tweed River, NSW.
Lionel George Goss was born on 28 Aug 1882 in Queensland, a son to Adolph Heinrich Goss and Emily Henrietta Goss (nee Lind). His mother passed in 1886 in Brisbane and his father remarried in 1894 in Murwillumbah, NSW.
Lionel married Martha Emma Clark on 19 Mar 1932 in Queensland.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 504; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks, Bk 4 p. 9).
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