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Military service
Service number:
135913
Age:
40
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
October 28, 1875
Death:
July 9, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 26 - 28
Additional information
Son of William and Harriett Ross, of Whitechapel, London, England; husband of Annie Best (formerly Ross), of Conisborough, Rotherham, England. Enlisted in British Army, 1893. Served in India and in the South African Campaign.
Digital gallery of Private William Ross
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Newspaper Clipping
Pte. William Ross enlisted in Toronto in the 74th Battalion C.E.F. on July 19th, 1915. In honoured memory. -
Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate - May 2019 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM ROSS
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Ross
Digital gallery of
Private William Ross
Digital gallery of
Private William Ross
Digital gallery of
Private William Ross
Digital gallery of
Private William Ross
Digital gallery of
Private William Ross
Digital gallery of
Private William Ross
Digital gallery of
Private William Ross
Digital gallery of
Private William Ross
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 157 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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