Nothing to do with Ireland, but an interesting Intelligence man
1882 Nov 17 Born Grimsby of a Swedish Father and Argentinean Mother. His father was a Ship's Chandler. The birth was actually registered as "Tomaso Carlo Sebastiano Huss"
1891 census at 146 Richmand Rd, St John, Glamorgan, Wales
1895 Sep 2 admitted to Howard Gardens And Howardian High Schools (Boys) in Cardiff. His previous school is described as Mr Wilkes
1898 Aug 31 left school in Cardiff "Gone to France"
1904 Jun 8 Married Married a Swede, Elsa Maria Af Trolle-Afzelius at St John Baptist Church, Cardiff
1905 Daughter May born Cardiff
1907 Son Charles born Penarth, Glamorgan
1911 Apr 2 Census at 10 Clive Crescent Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales
1911 Daughter Elsa born Cardiff
1912 May 20 British Olympic trials . Huss won standing broad jump with 9ft 6". Presumably the Britsh did not send him
1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. Konstantinos Tsiklitiras won the gold medal in the Standing Long Jump with a distance of 11 feet 3/4 inch.
1915 Jan 1. Joins Masonic Lodge at Penarth. He is Deputy Manager of a Dry Dock
1915 Apr 26 enlisted in Inns of Court OTC
They have him as having served in the following, which does not include Sweden
I could not substantiate whether he was captured by the Turks or not. In fact his wartime service from joining Inns of Court OTC in Apr 1915 until his capture in Dec 1916 is somewhat opaque.But there is nothing about capture and escape from the Turks in his Officer File, so I do not think this happened
Various sources give
It is doubtful that he could have done all these things. His officer file sheds some light on his service
1915 Jun 8 Commissioned 2nd Lt in 3rd Welsh Regt
Famous Athlete granted commission in Army Mr. T.C.S. Huss, who has lately been obtaining experiences with the Inns of Court Officer’s Training Corps, has been granted a commission as second-lieutenant attached to the 3rd Welsh. Mr. Huss is the son of the well-known Cardiff Docks merchant, Mr. Charles H. Huss. He has a well-deserved reputation as an all-round athlete. He is a fine amateur boxer, and has put up some good bouts with the leading local professionals, and has competed for both the English and Welsh featherweight amateur championships.He is also the holder of several medals and trophies won in amateur competition. Before the last Olympiad at Stockholm he won the English trial at Stamford Bridge for the standing broad jump, beating the heading Varsity and other cracks and doing 9ft 7,5in. – a figure he has beaten many times at practice. The following year he was beaten by the fraction of an inch in the English championship in the same event. In most other sports he has done well. Mr. Huss is a very fine linguist, speaking fluently French, Spanish, Italian, Genovese dialect, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish. He had travelled extensively all over Europe, and no doubt his abilities as a linguist and his travels will be of great help to him in his military duties.
Lieut. T.C.S. Huss, who has just been invalided home from the front suffering from gas poisoning and a severely sprained leg whilst trying to rush a German trench at Ypres, has been accorded an enthusiastic reception by his many friends. Lieut. Huss, who is now on leave, rendered great help to the wounded after the terrific battle of Dixmude.
In fact he was brought back from Albania because of "shell shock"
1916 Divored from his first wife . This is from an unsubstantiated Ancestry Tree
1916 Dec 14. Huss is taken off a Swedish merchant ship bound for Britian by U66. He gave his NOK as his father at 2 Ty Draw Rd, Roath Park, Cardiff
Dagens Nyheter in a Norwegian newspape. "During the Swedish steamer Ingeborg's journey from Gothenburg, England a few days ago an event occurred, which has attracted embarrassing attention, not least because it seems to confirm how carefully organized the German intelligence service is. Just outside Swedish territorial waters, "Ingeborg" was stopped by a German submarine, which demanded the extradition of an English officer named Huss. The English officer, who had previously served at the front, but who had now spent about a year in Sweden, was indeed on board . The evening before the ship departed from Gothenburg, he had come from Stockholm to Gothenburg by train to board the boat. The captain of the Swedish ship had to obey orders and hand over the Englishman, who was thus taken prisoner. The officer was of Swedish descent/origin"
The U66 diary records that the British officer was removed from a Swedish passenger or passenger-cargo ship . The Swedish ship allowed to proceed except for the detained Englander. We motored close to a Swedish passenger steamer. The first officer came to us with papers, we discovered some female passengers on the small promenade deck of the steamer. All our ships binoculars even the telescopes on the gun, were used for this long-awaited sight. We asked the captain for his passenger lists. He stated that they were all Swedes. However, we asked to see the identity papers of each individual, since it is not possible to proceed precisely enough against a steamer going to England. The first officer , incidentally a friendly and German-enthusiastic man , indicates to us that there is an Englishman among them. The captain came over with his ID. The Swede admitted that it was an English officer, to which the commandant added that he should bring his suitcase with him right away. .... So Mr. Stuss came on board in civilian clothes and was assigned the commandant's room as living quarters.
1916 Dec 16 . Diary entry from the submarine officer on U66. Submarine arrived in Kiel and Prince Heinrich came aboard the submarine and spoke with Mr. Stuss (stet) for some time in Englaish. As Prince Heinrich was Commander-in-Chief, Baltic Fleet, 1914–1918 it perhaps indicates that Huss was someone special
He was eventually interned in Celle Schlosse.
1917 Jun 1 Promoted Lt . This is the normal 2nd Lt to Lt promotion but has taken longer than the normal 18 months
1918 Dec 24 Repatriated from Germany to UK
1919 Mar 29 . 3rd Welsh E.—Lt. T. C. S. Huss is placed on the ret. list on account of ill-health con-tracted on active service.
Certainly the Intelligene Services were not going to award any medals to him
1919 Sep 4. Enters a new shipping business
1920 Jun his mother died in Cardiff
Post WW1 he lived at Ch de la Sone , has its own web site - click.
He spent a year in Albania and time in Russia according to a later press interview
Ch de la Sone
1926 Mar 15, Arrived Southampton in the Windsor Castle from Cape Town, He gives residence as Monte Carlo and travels 2nd Class
1927 Sep 26 His father died in Cardiff
1929 Jan 25 Leaves UK with Anna Huss (aged 42) for Shanghai. They both live in France
1929 Jun 28. Both he and daughter had passports issued by British Consul in Peking . Their original passports had been stolen in Manchuria 2 months before
1929 Aug 27 Visits Melbourne
1929 Sep 3 Gives a press interview in New Zealand
1920 Sep 19 Leaves Sydney , Australia with daughter Elsa. On SS Aorangi
1929 Oct 10. Arrives Vancouver with daughter Elsa from Aukland. . He is a retired Ship Owner
1930 Jan 4 Crosses border at Buffalo, New York. With daughter Elsa. He gives his wife as Mrs F A Huss in England
1931 Mar 31 Arrives UK from Corral, Chile. He travels alone
1933 Jun Married in Hendon to Florence Adeline Thomas
1933 Sep ( Travels round the world, 1st class, on Blue Funnel line ship Ulysses from Liverpool, Marseilles, Port Said, Colombo, Malaya, Java, Australia, Cape Town, Liverpool. His address is Villa la Crimere, Av des Fleurs, Nice. He travels with wife Mrs Florence Adeline and 13 year old daughter, Joan Huss
1934 Nov 13 leaves UK for Puerto Colombia with wife and daughter Joan. He is resident in France. 1st class on SS "St Louis"
1935 Jan 26. Arrives in UK from Puerto Colombia with wife and daughter. He is living in Nice, France and describes himself as "Consul"
1938 TNA have a curious file FO 371/21619/6190 - Complaint: Mr. T.C.S. Huss. Code 17 file 6190
1944 Sep 13. Death at Swissville, Beach Road, St Saviour Jersey. He left £63,000 which was a bob or two then His will showed that he desires to be buried in the family grave at Roath Park, Cardiff.
