| Regimental number | 474 |
| Place of birth | Bendigo, Victoria |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Labourer |
| Address | Raywood, Victoria |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 27 |
| Next of kin | Father, Richard Ross, c/o T. Dolman, Raywood, Victoria |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 9th Light Horse Regiment, C Squadron |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 10/14/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A10 Karroo on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 31), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 179 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Commemorated on Raywood State School No 1844 Honor Roll ('Humanity called, the response was great'), Raywood Hall, Victoria. |
| Family/military connections | Brother: 2793 Pte Hector ROSS, 21st Bn, died of disease, 30 January 1916. |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Proceeded from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 5 August 1915. Taken ill; disembarked from HT 'Caledonia', Alexandria, 27 December 1915; admitted to 1st Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, 31 December 1915 (enteric: dangerously ill). Taken off 'dangerously ill' list, 17 February 1916. Transferred to Military Infectious Hospital, Choubra, 1 March 1916; to 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, Heliopolis, 10 April 1916; to Raseltin Convalescent Hospital, Alexandria, 18 April 1916; discharged to Australian Base, Tel el Kebir, 3 May 1916. Transferred to Artillery Details, 14 May 1916. Embarked for England with No. 2 Battery, 28 May 1916. While at sea found guilty of (1) hesitating to obey order given by NCO; (2) smoking between decks: awarded 72 hours' detention. Proceeded overseas to France from England, 20 November 1916; taken on strength, 10th Machine Gun Company, 10 January 1917. Killed in action, 7 June 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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