Arthur Dudley Moss 820
- Born: Cir 1880, Maldon, Essex England
- Died: May 1917, Villers-Bretonneux, near Amiens in Picardy France WWI about age 37 820
General Notes:
Michael Moss notes:
Arthur Dudley enlisted in Australia at Holsworthy which suggests to me that his father emigrated and then returned to Maldon.
Michael Moss notes:
Aunt Sarah ' s memoir also contradicts the tale that the Mosses did not go to war. Two of my grandfather ' s cousins were killed. The first to die was Cyril Frank, who fell at Loos in September 1915. He and his brother Frederick William had only volunteered earlier in the year as part of Kitchener ' s army. According to his aunt - 'He was always of a bold dashing spirit, afraid of nothing, and he with a comrade of kindred spirits, fought their way through the German wire entanglements, and were the first to throw hand grenades into the enemy trenches, he was the first to fall, and never did a German shell do a more dastardly deed than take the life of Cyril Moss ' . Nevertheless it was his brother Frederick who won the Military Cross for acts of exemplary gallantry in August 1916. On learning of his brother ' s death his elder brother Arthur Dudley, who was working as an electrical engineer at Burwood, immediately volunteered to join the Australian forces. He was killed at Villers-Bretonneux, near Amines in Picardy in May 1917 leaving behind a young widow just like my grandmother Burns far away in Northumberland. Apart from being commemorated at the national war memorial where his name will be projected on the outside wall at nine minutes past one on the 14th of November, his name is also engraved on the Masonic memorial at Baulkham Hills. Frederick William Moss survived the war and emigrated to America where he became vice-president of Standard Oil under John D Rockefeller.
A little more about 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Dudley Moss can be learned from the AIF (Australian Anzacs in the Great War) project database. 24 He was a member of the Church of England, he was married, he was an electrical engineer and lived in Trebartha, Burwood on the outskirts of Melbourne. He embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 22 August 1916 and he has no known grave.
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