World War 1, Western Front, France, Harbonnieres, 8007 Moseley, 16 Battalion AIF, 1918

Private Edwin Otis Moseley was born in Perth the eldest of three sons of Francis Arnold and Lucy Darling Moseley who lived in Cottesloe. On 1 September 1917 when he enlisted at Northam, Moseley, was aged 36 and gave his occupation as bank manager. He had been manager of the Dowerin branch of the National Bank between 1911 and 1913 and then was transferred to the Kellerberrin branch of the bank in November 1913 before enlisting in 1917. Moseley was assigned to16tBattalion and embarked from lFremantle on H.M.T. Canberra on 24 November for Suez, where transferred to H.M.T. Kashgar for the remainder of the trip to England, arriving at Codford Camp on 31 January 1918. Between 4 and 20 April 1918 Edwin Moseley was in Brook War Hospital in Woolwich suffering from bronchitis. PrivateMoseley went to France through Folkestone on 3 June 1918.
Private Edwin Moseley was killed in action on 8 August 1918, and was buried in Heath Cemetery in Harbonnieres,