Roll of Honour of the 710 men of Hyde who fell in WW1
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Fred MOSS
Lance Corporal 8427 Fred MOSS
12th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
Died of Suffocation, Saturday 19th January 1918, Salonika, Greece, age 35
| Home address: | 59 Syddall Street, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Born: | 1883, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Parents: | Mary Jane Moss and Thomas Moss 143 Manchester Road, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Marital status: | Married to Martha Moss (née Wilde) 233 Market Street, Hyde, Cheshire |
| Occupation: | Cloth Looker, Cotton Mill |
| Enlisted: | Manchester, Lancashire |
| Remembered: | Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Greece, grave 1348. |
| Link to Hyde: | Born in Hyde |
The War Death Record says he was born in Salford.
He was Captain of St. George's Church Lads Brigade, and a member of the Denton Original Band.
From the North Cheshire Herald, 15th May 1915, page 8, columns 4 and 5:
Our division is at a place called Ypres. On Sunday last the Germans filled our trenches with gases (poisonous), and we all had to run for it. It happened about five o clock in the afternoon, so that as we left the trenches it was daylight and they played on us with machine guns and heavy shell fire. There were plenty of us, and if anyone was hit, and could not walk, they die of fumes. We left two or three wounded in the trenches waiting till night time to be taken to hospital. No one could help them, so they would die in the trenches when the gas reached them.
I saw our doctor and my company officer leaving the trenches, and making a run for it; the Captain shouting - ‘Every men take care of himself, and get away,’ I am pleased to say I was not hit, but I got a lot of poisonous gas on my stomach. We went to our doctor when we found our direction in the village. Some soldiers died on the way. Some of us have been sent down to the base at Le Havre. It has knocked the stuffing out of us. I have been here eight months and they have not done it before. I call it poor fighting. They did the Canadians the same way. It was impossible to stand it in the trenches while the gas was in the air.
I am doing very well in hospital. Twelve of us came here, but one died in the night, and two or three can hardly speak yet. I am not so bad as that yet.
A Message of Remembrance, written for Werneth Low Cenotaph Unveiling, 25th June 1921:
In memory of the boys who made the supreme sacrifice:
J. Lindley, W. Barlow, J. Hardinge, F. Moss, G. Froggatt;
also their late secretary, W. Wallworth.
From Mrs. Platt (hon. treas.).
The Medal and Award Rolls, 1914 - 1920 States: "Died of Suffocation, Balkans, 19-1-18."