Corporal of Horse William James Cross (21 November 1917 – 29 June 2015) was a soldier of the British Army who fought in numerous campaigns during World War II.

[1] Cross was born at Scunthorpe on 21 November 1917, the son of soldier from the Coldstream Guards who served in the First World War.

[1] He followed in his father's footsteps, enlisting in the British Army in September 1934 as a Band Boy with the Royal Scots Greys.

In January 1945 Cross transferred to the Life Guards,[1][2] where he became a corporal of horse and finished his war service at Wismar on the shores of the Baltic Sea.

[4] In 2015 he was one of 19 Chelsea Pensioners presented with the Légion d’honneur by the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Madame Sylvie Bermann.