Mike Morley
Joined: 17 Apr 2013 Posts: 8667 Location: Roberton, Lanarkshire
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 6:28 pm Post subject: John Alexander Ross, Hampshire Regiment |
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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? |
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