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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

BUIRE sur l'ANCRE Communal Cemetery (Somme France)

B. J. Allard - W. Moreland - C. A. S. Hose - J. Jackson - J. Truss

R. Armstrong

2nd/Lt Cyril Arthur Sparling Hose 10/09/1916 aged 27
Cyril was born between July and September 1889 in Forest Gate, Essex.
He was the youngest child of Mr Joseph William Elias Hose, a clerk (born in 1853 in Camberwell, Surrey) and Robina Phin Hose (née Sparling, born about 1862 in Glasgow, Scotland).
Cyril had an older brother, Harold William H. Hose (born 1884).
He would also have had an older sister, Ethel Christine Hose (born 1881), but she had died in 1886, and therefore Cyril would never have met her.
At the time of the 1901 census, 11-year-old Cyril was recorded as living in the household of his material uncle, James Sparling, in Forest Gate, West Ham.
By the time of the next census in 1911, 21-year-old Cyril was working as a bank clerk, and was living with his mother, Robina, at 192 Uphall Road, Ilford, Essex.
Cyril is recorded as working for the Midland Bank in 1914, in the Foreign Department, Head Office.
However, he enlisted in the London Scottish Regiment in August 1914.
It is not recorded, but seems plausible that his choice of the ‘Scottish’ battalion of the London Regiment may have been influenced by his mother’s Glaswegian origins.
He was a private soldier, with the regimental number of 2907.
Cyril served for 9 months in France 1915, before returning to England, presumably for officer training.
He was commissioned into The King's (Liverpool Regiment) as a second lieutenant on 11 Dec 1915.
Cyril was married to Doris Edith Rollinson on 16 June 1916 at Great Ilford, St Clement, Essex.
They lived at 38 Clarendon Gardens, Ilford.Cyril returned to France in June 1916, and was recorded in the 1/5 Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment war diary as being taken on the unit’s strength on 16 August 1916 at Ville-sur-Ancre in France.
On 9 September 1916, his battalion was engaged in fighting as part of the Battle of the Somme.
The battalion’s war diary entry for the day records “Another attack was then organised, and at 7.30 pm 2/Lieut Hose (5th Liverpools) & 50 men of 'A' Coy 6th Bn went over from WORCESTER trench - this attack was preceded by a short bombardment from the Stokes gun.
The party gained its objective, got into communication with the 2nd K.R.R. on its L & started to dig a new trench in front of WOOD LANE - 2/Lieut Hose & 1 other rank were unfortunately killed."
Official documents vary in whether they record Cyril’s death as being on 9 September or 10 September 1916, but it is clear that he was killed in action during the course of that night.
On 11 September, the same war diary records "5pm burial of 2/Lt Hose and L/Cpl Moreland in local cemetery."
Cyril is buried with the personal inscription "Until the day break and the shadows flee away".
He is alsocommemorated in Ilford War Memorial Hall, on a brass plaque in St Paul's Church, Goodmayes, Ilford, on a wooden memorial panel in Redbridge Town Hall (originally from St Clement's Church)and on the London Joint City and Midland Bank memorial at HSBC’s headquarters in Canary Wharf, London.
Cyril left £250 15s 7d to Doris, whom he had married less than three monthspreviously.
Biography researched by Scott L Roberts

6 casualties

ALLARD BERTIE JOHN
United Kingdom Driver Royal Engineers 209th Field Coy. Age 23 Date of Death 01/06/1916 Service No 85139

ARMSTRONG R
United Kingdom Private Northumberland Fusiliers 12th Bn. Age 23 Date of Death 16/05/1916 Service No 15774

HOSE CYRIL ARTHUR SPARLING
United Kingdom Second Lieutenant The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st/5th Bn. Age 27 Date of Death 10/09/1916

JACKSON JOSEPH
Australian Private Australian Infantry A.I.F. 56th Bn. Date of Death 29/12/1916 Service No 1931

MORELAND WILLIAM
United Kingdom Lance Corporal The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 1st/5th Bn. Age 19 Date of Death 10/09/1916 Service No 6200

TRUSS JACOB
Australian Private Australian Infantry A.I.F. 26th Bn. Age 31 Date of Death 31/05/1918 Service No 723

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