49th Battn
C.E.F.
Husband to Lucy Moss.
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John Thomas Moss was the last of five children born (in Sheffield) to Frank Moss and Charlotte Blakey living in Masbrough, Yorkshire, England. John reported that he served four years in the Imperial Yeomanry (estimated 1902-1906) and another 3 years in the newly formed 101st Expeditionary Force (about 1907-1910). In about 1908 he married Sarah Garsden in Blackpool, Lancashire and had two children: Vera (1909) and Frank Garsden (1910). In 1910, John emigrated to Alberta, Canada while his young family remained in England, living with the Garsden family. They joined John in Alberta in May, 1911.
In 1915, John enlisted in the Canadian army, where he reported his previous military experience cited above. He served in the 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
In 1921 at the age of 33, Sarah gave birth to their third child, Doreen. In 1923, John left his family and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. Hannah remarried a man named Macdonald and had three more children (later referenced in daughter Vera’s obituary).
Between 1924 and 1928 (the dates overlap or conflict in John’s U.S. Citizenship papers), John moved to Chicago, employed as a musician with a Vancouver acting troupe. He stated his day job as “carpenter”. There he met and on 27 June 1927 married Lucy Theodate Holmes Hunter, who was not long divorced from James Douglas Hunter. By an odd coincidence, both men were war veterans who doubled as musicians. By 1928, John and Lucy were living in Tujunga, Los Angeles County, California.
On 10 February 1936, John and Lucy were specially recorded on a Manifest of Alien Passengers (since John was not yet as U.S. citizen) as arriving in the Port of Los Angeles from Antwerp, Belgium. Perhaps they both felt an obligation to revisit their grim World War I experiences in Europe.
John’s life ended prematurely on 12 February 1937, when he succumbed to blood poisoning from a sliver embedded in his thumb in the course of his carpentry work. For reasons unknown, it appears that John and Lucy were maintaining separate addresses during the last year of John’s life. In any event, Lucy gave John a proper burial with a grave marker acknowledging his Canadian military service, and when her time came, left instructions to her attorney that her ashes be interred on top of John’s grave.
C.E.F.
Husband to Lucy Moss.
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John Thomas Moss was the last of five children born (in Sheffield) to Frank Moss and Charlotte Blakey living in Masbrough, Yorkshire, England. John reported that he served four years in the Imperial Yeomanry (estimated 1902-1906) and another 3 years in the newly formed 101st Expeditionary Force (about 1907-1910). In about 1908 he married Sarah Garsden in Blackpool, Lancashire and had two children: Vera (1909) and Frank Garsden (1910). In 1910, John emigrated to Alberta, Canada while his young family remained in England, living with the Garsden family. They joined John in Alberta in May, 1911.
In 1915, John enlisted in the Canadian army, where he reported his previous military experience cited above. He served in the 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
In 1921 at the age of 33, Sarah gave birth to their third child, Doreen. In 1923, John left his family and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. Hannah remarried a man named Macdonald and had three more children (later referenced in daughter Vera’s obituary).
Between 1924 and 1928 (the dates overlap or conflict in John’s U.S. Citizenship papers), John moved to Chicago, employed as a musician with a Vancouver acting troupe. He stated his day job as “carpenter”. There he met and on 27 June 1927 married Lucy Theodate Holmes Hunter, who was not long divorced from James Douglas Hunter. By an odd coincidence, both men were war veterans who doubled as musicians. By 1928, John and Lucy were living in Tujunga, Los Angeles County, California.
On 10 February 1936, John and Lucy were specially recorded on a Manifest of Alien Passengers (since John was not yet as U.S. citizen) as arriving in the Port of Los Angeles from Antwerp, Belgium. Perhaps they both felt an obligation to revisit their grim World War I experiences in Europe.
John’s life ended prematurely on 12 February 1937, when he succumbed to blood poisoning from a sliver embedded in his thumb in the course of his carpentry work. For reasons unknown, it appears that John and Lucy were maintaining separate addresses during the last year of John’s life. In any event, Lucy gave John a proper burial with a grave marker acknowledging his Canadian military service, and when her time came, left instructions to her attorney that her ashes be interred on top of John’s grave.
49th Battn
C.E.F.
Husband to Lucy Moss.
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John Thomas Moss was the last of five children born (in Sheffield) to Frank Moss and Charlotte Blakey living in Masbrough, Yorkshire, England. John reported that he served four years in the Imperial Yeomanry (estimated 1902-1906) and another 3 years in the newly formed 101st Expeditionary Force (about 1907-1910). In about 1908 he married Sarah Garsden in Blackpool, Lancashire and had two children: Vera (1909) and Frank Garsden (1910). In 1910, John emigrated to Alberta, Canada while his young family remained in England, living with the Garsden family. They joined John in Alberta in May, 1911.
In 1915, John enlisted in the Canadian army, where he reported his previous military experience cited above. He served in the 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
In 1921 at the age of 33, Sarah gave birth to their third child, Doreen. In 1923, John left his family and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. Hannah remarried a man named Macdonald and had three more children (later referenced in daughter Vera’s obituary).
Between 1924 and 1928 (the dates overlap or conflict in John’s U.S. Citizenship papers), John moved to Chicago, employed as a musician with a Vancouver acting troupe. He stated his day job as “carpenter”. There he met and on 27 June 1927 married Lucy Theodate Holmes Hunter, who was not long divorced from James Douglas Hunter. By an odd coincidence, both men were war veterans who doubled as musicians. By 1928, John and Lucy were living in Tujunga, Los Angeles County, California.
On 10 February 1936, John and Lucy were specially recorded on a Manifest of Alien Passengers (since John was not yet as U.S. citizen) as arriving in the Port of Los Angeles from Antwerp, Belgium. Perhaps they both felt an obligation to revisit their grim World War I experiences in Europe.
John’s life ended prematurely on 12 February 1937, when he succumbed to blood poisoning from a sliver embedded in his thumb in the course of his carpentry work. For reasons unknown, it appears that John and Lucy were maintaining separate addresses during the last year of John’s life. In any event, Lucy gave John a proper burial with a grave marker acknowledging his Canadian military service, and when her time came, left instructions to her attorney that her ashes be interred on top of John’s grave.
C.E.F.
Husband to Lucy Moss.
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John Thomas Moss was the last of five children born (in Sheffield) to Frank Moss and Charlotte Blakey living in Masbrough, Yorkshire, England. John reported that he served four years in the Imperial Yeomanry (estimated 1902-1906) and another 3 years in the newly formed 101st Expeditionary Force (about 1907-1910). In about 1908 he married Sarah Garsden in Blackpool, Lancashire and had two children: Vera (1909) and Frank Garsden (1910). In 1910, John emigrated to Alberta, Canada while his young family remained in England, living with the Garsden family. They joined John in Alberta in May, 1911.
In 1915, John enlisted in the Canadian army, where he reported his previous military experience cited above. He served in the 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I.
In 1921 at the age of 33, Sarah gave birth to their third child, Doreen. In 1923, John left his family and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. Hannah remarried a man named Macdonald and had three more children (later referenced in daughter Vera’s obituary).
Between 1924 and 1928 (the dates overlap or conflict in John’s U.S. Citizenship papers), John moved to Chicago, employed as a musician with a Vancouver acting troupe. He stated his day job as “carpenter”. There he met and on 27 June 1927 married Lucy Theodate Holmes Hunter, who was not long divorced from James Douglas Hunter. By an odd coincidence, both men were war veterans who doubled as musicians. By 1928, John and Lucy were living in Tujunga, Los Angeles County, California.
On 10 February 1936, John and Lucy were specially recorded on a Manifest of Alien Passengers (since John was not yet as U.S. citizen) as arriving in the Port of Los Angeles from Antwerp, Belgium. Perhaps they both felt an obligation to revisit their grim World War I experiences in Europe.
John’s life ended prematurely on 12 February 1937, when he succumbed to blood poisoning from a sliver embedded in his thumb in the course of his carpentry work. For reasons unknown, it appears that John and Lucy were maintaining separate addresses during the last year of John’s life. In any event, Lucy gave John a proper burial with a grave marker acknowledging his Canadian military service, and when her time came, left instructions to her attorney that her ashes be interred on top of John’s grave.
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