Commemorated:

1. Memorial:Madras 1914-1918 War MemorialFace 27 Chennai
2. Book:The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918Pg.120
3. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour31B/61A GQS
    

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Family :

Son of John and Catherine Cross; husband of Mary C. France (formerly Cross), of 70, Osmaston Rd., Prenton, Merseyside. Buried in Auahabad New Cantonment Cemetery.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: Royal Army Medical Corps 

Action : India & Imperial Policing 

At the start of the war it was important to bring Regular Battalions back from their 'Imperial Policing' role in India and the FarEast. These troops were replaced by Territorial and other Garisson troops.

Detail :

CAPTAIN J. CROSS, R.A.M.C. died at Allahabad on July 21st 1918. He was educated at Glasgow University, where he graduated M.B. and Ch.B. in 1903, and after serving as house-physician and house-surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow, and as locumtenent in Shetland, he proceeded to London for a course of study in tropical disease, and subsequently accepted an appointment as medical officer at Lagos, Southern Nigeria. Five years later he returned to this country and commenced practice at Birkenhlead. In June, l917, he received a comimission as temporary lieutenant in the R.A.M.C., and in view of his knowledge of tropical diseases was sent to Allahabad. He was promoted to captain after a year's service. The 1921 Masonic Roll of Honour lists him as a Lt-Surgeon. Sources; BMJ; 17/8/1918 BMJ; 14/9/1918

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : Cholmondeley No. 1908 E.C.Cheshire
Joined : Abbey No. 3778 E.C. Cheshire

Initiated
Passed
Raised
13th March 1913
10th April 1913
8th May 1913
 

Petitioner and founder member of the Abbey Lodge No. 3778 in Cheshire, warranted to meet from 18th July 1916. In the contribution record of Abbey it shows "Died on active service June
1918."


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