260258 Sig. Terriss Norman Cross British Army D Battery, 155th Brigade Royal Field Artillery from:West Ham Terriss Cross enlisted on 11th of September 1916 at Woolwich. He served with 155 Brigade RFA in D Battery joining them on 30th September 1917 just before the Third Battle of Ypres (Second Battle of Passchendale). They moved into reserve east of Poperinghe on 22nd of November 1917 then some 75 miles south to Bapaume. They were heavily involved in the German Spring Offensive of March 1918. They fought in support of 38th Division on 18th of September in the area of Gouzeaucourt where Terriss Cross was gassed. He was taken to 30 Field Ambulance and then moved to No. 12 General Hospital at Rouen on 24th of September and then was moved to the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot. He lived until March 1977.
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