Jean Longstaff has submitted the following:-

Frederick John Moss, son of Thomas and Sarah Moss of Southwick, Sunderland was born on 28th June 1873. By 1916 he was married and living with his wife Martha in Papineau Avenue, Montreal, Canada, where he was working as a mechanic, and was member of the 4th Field Company, Canadian Engineers, a local active militia group.

He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 6th June 1916 in Montreal and became Sapper 1078225 posted to the 5th Pioneer Battalion. Arriving in England just before Christmas on the SS Metagama and posted to camp at Witley on the south coast, in February 1917 he was transferred to Bramshott into the 5th Divisional Engineers. Transferred again a year later to the Engineers Training Depot at Seaford, in July 1918 he found himself in France with the 1st Battalion Canadian Engineers, joining them at Gauchin-le-Gal, and then on to Arras.

According to the Circumstances of Casualty report, on the night of 18th September “he was with a party of six men sent to load light bridging material, south of Baralle. When the work had been completed the party set out on their return journey to their camp, south of Cagnicourt. Owing to the traffic on the road they became separated, two of the men jumping on a lorry and riding back to camp. Nothing was heard of the other four men until several days later when Sapper Moss was reported from No.35 Field Ambulance as having died of wounds. It is presumed that all four men were struck by fragments of a shell or aerial bomb.”

Sapper 1078225 is listed as having died of wounds on 28th September 1918 in #35 Field Ambulance Station.

Frederick John Moss is remembered in Sunderland in S140.048 part 9 page 201

He is also remembered in Canada on their Virtual War Memorial and in their Book of Remembrance.

Canadian Book of Remembrance
Canadian Virtual War Memorial
The CWGC entry for Sapper Moss