The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

DelBoy · Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 6:04 pm Post subject: Dr Elizabeth Ness Ross

In my typing up of various newspaper bits and bobs relating to war casualties I came across the one below.

(Glasgow Herald 20th Feb 1915)
"Ross-
At Kragujevatz, Servia, on the 14th Inst. of typhus fever while acting as a Servian military doctor. Elizabeth Ness M.B. Ch.B., eldest daughter of the late D.A. MacBean Ross, Commercial Bank Manager, London, and of Mrs Ross, Craigdarroch, Tain."

Dr Ross is not listed on any memorial as far as I can tell. It seems odd to me that a British doctor would be working in a Servian (Serbian) military hospital or in their military during WW1. Anyone able to shed light on this practice?
As civilians aren't listed she will not qualify for CWGC but has a listing on SNWM.

Derek.

kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Derek

I am checking this. She may have at Kraguievatz with Elsie Inglis
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If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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kinnethmont · Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1649 Location: Aberdeenshire

Derek

Dr. Elizabeth Ness Macbean Ross MB, Ch.B was in Serbia as a Civilian doctor, arriving there alone and sometime before the Scottish Womens Hospital. She was never an SWH member.

She, therefor, cannot qualify for CWGC status.

Memorial details here :
http://www.tainmuseum.org.uk/dr._elizabeth_ross_g.asp?page=151
_________________
Jim

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

www.kinnethmont.co.uk

DelBoy · Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 8:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks for checking her status out Jim.

Derek.

DelBoy · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:02 am Post subject:

The announced plans for the memorial in her home town.

Derek.