MOSSOP, William Liston
| Service Number: | 8245 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia., 31 January 1891 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died of wounds ( Gas), Oxford Hospital, Oxfordshire, England, 23 May 1915, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Manchester Southern Cemetery, England, United Kingdom Q. 398 (Screen Wall). |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement 8245 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
According to his Death Registration, he was 24, but the CWGC record states he was 22. He died of wounds in Oxfordshire and it seems his mother, Nellie Mossop, of 110, Main Rd., Moss Side, Manchester arranged for his body to be interred in Manchester Souther Cemetery.
He served with the 1st Bn. The Cheshire Regiment~Service Number 8245. His actual grave is no longer marked and he is therefore commemorated on the Screen Wall.
Deaths Jun 1915 Mossop William 24 Oxford 3a 1317
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland
Died on this date – 23rd May.... Private William Liston Mossop was born on 31st January, 1891 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to parents John & Nellie Mossop (nee Liston).
William Mossop was listed in the 1901 England Census as a 10 year old living with his family at 8 Tunstall Street, Ardwick, South Manchester, Lancashire, England.
William Mossop joined the Cheshire Regiment at Hyde, Cheshire. He was posted to 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment with a Service number of 8245. He entered a Theatre of War in France on 28th November, 1914.
Private William Mossop, Cheshire Regiment, 8245, was admitted to No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station at Poperinghe, Belgium on 13th March, 1915 with gunshot wounds to left leg. He was transferred on 14th March, 1915 to No. 10 Ambulance Train.
Newspaper item – Chester Chronicle, Chester, Cheshire, England - 5 June, 1915:
CHESHIRES CASUALTIES
MOSSOP, Pte W., 8245, wounded scalp
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CHESHIRES CASUALTIES
MOSSOP, Pte W., 8245 wounded, serious
Private William Mossop died on 23rd May, 1915 at Oxford Hospital from wounds (gas) received in action.
He was buried in Southern Cemetery, Manchester, Lancashire, England – Plot number Q. 398 (Screen Wall). Many of the War Graves are scattered throughout the Cemetery & there are two separate War Grave plots, one for each war, whose graves are not headstoned but have screen wall memorials on which those buried are listed. Private Mossop does not have a headstone but his name is included on a Screen Wall. His death is still acknowledged by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Private William Mossop is remembered on the Commemorative Roll Book, located in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The Commemorative Roll records the names of those Australians who died during or as a result of wars in which Australians served, but who were not serving in the Australian Armed Forces and therefore not eligible for inclusion on the Roll of Honour.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
(Note: it appears that Private Mossop's Service Record file could not be located - possibly one of those destroyed in storage by enemy during WW2 so very little information could be found)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/-southern.html
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