The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Mike Morley

In Wigtown's High Cemetery there's a gravestone which reads:

In memory of Mary Mayor wife of Alexander Ross died at Stranraer 9th July 1907 aged 41 years.
Daughter Christina Mayor died at Wigtown 10th January 1897 aged 8 months.
Son John Alexander, Sergeant, Hampshire Regiment, killed in action Somme 3rd September 1916 aged 22 years.

In the Wigtownshire Free Press 21 Sep 1916: ROSS - Killed in action in France on the 3rd inst, Sergt J A Ross, Hampshire Regiment, son of Superintendent Ross, Stranraer, aged 23 years.

CWGC lists him as 3/5094 Sergeant John Alexander Ross, 14th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial.

There is not Ross on Wigtown's memorial and I don't think he's on Stranraer's. Does anyone know where he may be?

Theletterwriter · Joined: 25 Nov 2010 Posts: 45 Location: East Kilbride

Mike

SDGW has a Sgt. 3/5094 John Alexander Ross of the 14th Service Battalion Hampshire Regiment who died on 3 September 1916. His birthplace is recorded as Banff and his place of residence as Stranraer. He is recorded as enlisting at Portsmouth.

Douglas