Denis Krauss

Second Lieutenant Denis Hillel Krauss was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, in Paddington, the youngest son of Polish-born Edward and Annie Krauss (née Joseph), of Wick. Krauss studied at Colet Court and St Paul's before settling in South Africa. With the object of enlisting in the army, Krauss returned home in early December 1914,The Times (41453), Col E, p. 10: "Fallen Officers". 16 April 1917. aboard the Walmer Castle. He joined the Honorable Artillery Company, with which he attained the rank of serjeant and went to the Western Front, with the 1st Battalion, in April 1915.Goold Walker, George (1930), The Honourable Artillery Company in the Great War, 1914-1919, p. 535.
After being twice wounded in June 1915, Krauss was returned to Britain. He obtained his commission in January 1917, in the North Staffordshire Regiment. Krauss died on 7 April 1917, of wounds received on the Western Front, while serving with the 5th North Staffords.
He is buried in Le Treport Military Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Krauss, Denis Hillel, cwgc.org. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
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