Edward ROSS

ROSS, Edward

Service Number: 216
Enlisted: 4 March 1916, Place of enlistment - Geelong, Victoria
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born: Creswick, Victoria, Australia, 1887
Home Town: Leonards Hill, Moorabool, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, France, 27 September 1918
Cemetery: Templeux-le-Guerard British Cemetery
Plot II, Row F, Grave 30,
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Beech Forest WWI Honour Roll, Leonards Hill State School No 931 Roll of Honor
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World War 1 Service

4 Mar 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 216, 39th Infantry Battalion, Place of enlistment - Geelong, Victoria
27 May 1916: Embarked Private, 216, 39th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne
27 Sep 1918: Involvement Private, 216, 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 216 awm_unit: 10 Light Trench Mortar awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-09-27

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Marie Victorine 
 
TEMPLEUX-LE-GUÉRARD BRITISH CEMETERY 
Private Edward Ross
10th Australian Light trench Mortar Battery
27th September 1918. - Plot II. F. 30.

Private (Pte) Edward Ross, 39th Battalion, of Beech Forest, Vic. A labourer prior to enlisting in March 1916, Pte Ross embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT Ascanius (A11) on 27 May 1916.

In August 1916 Pte Ross was transferred to the 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery and arrived for service in France in November.

He was wounded in action in June 1917 and hospitalised in England until November, returning to France in February 1918.

In May 1918 he contracted Influenza and several other illnesses followed. He finally rejoined his unit on 6 September 1918. Pte Ross was killed in action in France on 27 September 1918 during the Allied offensive against the Hindenburg Line. He was 33 years of age.

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