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CROSS, Cyril Charles
(Service number 16532)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	03/08/1897	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age	20
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Robert Cross (father), Mangati, Timaru, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 9 inches; Complexion dark; Eye colour brown; Hair colour black

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	15th Reinforcements Specialist Machine-Gun Section
Date	26 July 1916
Transport	Waitemata or Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Devonport, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	New Zealand Machine Gun Corps

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	1 October 1919	Reason	On account of wounds received in action

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Gun shot wounds left knee; right eye; left arm and hand; right leg

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Cross served abroad for 2 years 186 days

Correspondence to his mother (Mary Laurie Cross), dated 3 May 1918, from the New Zealand Government Offices, The Strand, London reported on Cyril's recovery from the serious wounds received in France.

After Cross was discharged, he returned to live in Timaru although his service records state his intended address after discahrge was Waihi, Geraldine). During the second World War Cross once again enlisted in 1940, entering camp on 27 Januauary 1941, serving with the National military Reserve at Burnham and Addington camps. He was finally discharged on 1 September 1948. At the time of his re-enlistment his next of kin was given as his wife, Joy Eleanor Cross of 25 Archer Street, Timaru.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Cenotaph Database, 27 May 2015

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum)

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