George Gosse served in the Royal Australian Navy between 1926 and 1933. In 1940, he joined the RANVR for service in World War II. He served on several shore establishments before being sent to British India as a naval mine clearance specialist. In April 1945 he was given command of a naval party responsible for mine clearance in the recently captured Bremen Harbour in Germany. He displayed courage in defusing three mines under very difficult conditions. He retired in 1958 and died of a heart condition in 1964.
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George Gosse was an Australian recipient of the George Cross. Gosse served in the Royal Australian Navy between 1926 and 1933. In 1940, he joined the RANVR for service in World War II. He served on several shore establishments before being sent to British India as a naval mine clearance specialist. In April 1945 he was given command of a naval party responsible for mine clearance in the recently captured Bremen Harbour in Germany. He displayed courage in defusing three mines under very difficult conditions between 8 and 19 May 1945, which resulted in him being awarded theGeorge Cross. He retired in 1958 and died of a heart condition in 1964. His medal set is displayed in the Hall of Valour at the Australian War Memorial. He was a grandson of the explorer William Gosse and a nephew of the businessman Sir James Hay Gosse. His father was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry and was killed in action in 1918. His younger sister was cared for by their paternal grandmother. He married Diana Skottowe at his old school chapel on 1 October 1938. He had two daughters, one of whom was born in 1941 and the other in 1944.
He died in 1964 and is buried at St Peter’s College, Adelaide, South Australia, where he was educated from 1920 to 1925. He is survived by his wife, Diana, and their two daughters. He also leaves behind a son and a daughter, Michael Gosse, who was born on 16 February 1912 at Harvey, Western Australia, and a son-in-law, David Gosse who is also a former Australian naval officer. He will be buried at the St Peter’s College Cemetery, in Adelaide, on the banks of the Adelaide River, near the town of St Peter, in a plot of land that he built in the 1930s. He has also a son, David, who is a former RAN officer and served with the Royal Navy in the Second World War. His daughter is the wife of former Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies, who died in 2006 at the age of 89. He leaves behind two daughters and a grandson, Michael, who served in both the Australian and British navies in the 1950s and 1960s. His son is the grandson of explorer William Gosse and his wife Muriel née Davidson, who lived in Adelaide until she died in 2012.
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