Major
William
Hay
Gosse
MC
Born in Dequetville Terrace, Kent Town, South Australia (Australia)
Ancestors 
Son of William Christie Gosse
and Agnes Hay
Brother of
James Hay Gosse KB and Edith Agnes Hay Gosse
Husband of
Muriel Mary (Davidson) Gosse
— married
16 May 1911 in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Father of
George Gosse GC
Died
at age 42
in France
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Biography
GOSSE— DAVIDSON.— On the 16th May, [1] at Hawthorn, by the Rev. Holyoake-Rust, William Hay, eldest son of the late William Christie Gosse, of South Australia, to Muriel Mary, only daughter of G. D. Davidson, Geraldra Station. Cootamundra, New South Wales.
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| Military Cross |
- Note: He joined the British Army and was a Major in the Royal Field Artillery, 'A' Battalion, 79th Brigade. He was awarded the Military Cross in World War I and was killed in action.
- Burial: Date: ABT 07 APR 1918
- Place: Military Cemetery, Varennes, Somme, France
The cemetery was laid out by the 39th Casualty Clearing Station in August 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, but the first burials were made during August and September by more mobile divisional field ambulances. The 4th and 11th Casualty Clearing Stations then used the cemetery from October 1916, joined by the 47th from December 1916, but by May 1917 Varennes was deserted and remained so until the Germans launched their offensive in this quarter in April 1918. The cemetery was then extended by the 17th and 38th (Welsh) Divisions by the addition of plots II and III, and at the beginning of September 1918, the 3rd Canadian and 59th Casualty Clearing Stations arrived at Varennes. The cemetery contains 1,219 burials of the First World War, two of which were brought in from Varennes Communal Cemetery in 1934. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
Sources
1875 GOSSE William Hay William Christie GOSSE Agnes HAY Adelaide 157/23
- ↑ Family Notices (1911, June 10). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), p. 9. Retrieved September 25, 2019
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