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Note for: Leonard John Crosse, JUN 1908 - 29 AUG 1976 Index

Baptism:
     Date:   1976

Occupation:   Plumber

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Note for: Elsie May Crosse, 27 JUN 1911 - JUN 1994 Index

Occupation: employee
Place: County Hall, Ipswich, Suffolk, England

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Note for: William J Crosse, 27/71863 - 28 JUN 1947 Index

Occupation: Farmer/Manager of a Brick company

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1881 Census Name: William J. Cross Age in 1881: 17 Age months: 0 Estimated birth year: Abt 1864 Relationship to head-of-household: Son Household: View other family members Family and neighbors: View neighbors Gender: Male Where born: Woolpit, Suffolk, England Address: The Heath Civil parish: Woolpit County/Island: Suffolk Condition as to marriage: Unknown Occupation: Laborer Brick Yard Education: View Image Employment status: View Image Source information: RG11/1849 Registration district: Stow Sub-registration district: Rattlesden ED, institution, or vessel: 16 Folio: 80 Page: 16 Lived at Shelland Hall after Samuel Pollard, we think that the take over of the house due to Samuels drinking etc. caused bad feeling.

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Note for: Susanna Crosse, MAY 1887 - 1 NOV 1974 Index

Nickname: Anna

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In1974 Anna had 6 grandchildren, and 5 great-grandchildren. Went to live in the states in 1914

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Note for: John Crosse, SEP 1889 - 5 FEB 1917 Index

Death Note: Debt of Honour Register In Memory of JOHN CROSSE Able Seaman Tyneside Z/7888 Hood Bn. R.N. Div., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve who died on Monday 5 February 1917 . Cemetery: THIEPVAL MEMORIALSomme, France Grave or Reference Panel Number: Pier and Face 1 A Location: The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. Visiting Information: The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to another Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panels. Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within the quoted Panels. Historical Information: On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt. Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce resistance. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure. In the following weeks, huge resources of manpower and equipment were deployed in an attempt to exploit the modest successes of the first day. However, the German Army resisted tenaciously and repeated attacks and counter attacks meant a major battle for every village, copse and farmhouse gained. At the end of September, Thiepval was finally captured. The village had been an original objective of 1 July. Attacks north and east continued throughout October and into November in increasingly difficult weather conditions. The Battle of the Somme finally ended on 18 November with the onset of winter. In the spring of 1917, the German forces fell back to their newly prepared defences, the Hindenburg Line, and there were no further significant engagements in the Somme sector until the Germans mounted their major offensive in March 1918. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916. The memorial also serves as an Anglo-French Battle Memorial in recognition of the joint nature of the 1916 offensive and a small cemetery containing equal numbers of Commonwealth and French graves lies at the foot of the memorial. The memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, was built between 1928 and 1932 and unveiled by the Prince of Wales, in the presence of the President of France, on 31 July 1932. The dead of other Commonwealth countries who died on the Somme and have no known graves are commemorated on national memorials elsewhere. Suffolks Book Of Remembrance Roll Of Honour http://www.suffolkcc.gov.uk/cgi-bin/honour.cgi?string=crosse Royal Naval Division Hood Batt Shelland honoured on the memorial in The Somme. listed as missing