Name
Edwin/Edward Richard Ross
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/03/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
1909
London Regiment *1
1st/13th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 45
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Hemel Hempstead Town Memorial
Pre War
Edwin Richard Ross (known as Edward) was born in 1887 in Hemel Hempstead, the son of Samuel and Amelia Ross and one of four boys,
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 10 Bury Road, Hemel Hempstead, where his father was working as a Carpenter. By the 1901 Census they had moved to 1 Eunice Villas on Bridge Street, Hemel Hempstead, at which time Edward was working as Box Maker at the paper mill. (John Dickinson & Co Ltd).
Edward had moved to London by the time of the 1911 Census and was living as a lodger at the home of John and Adeline Stevens at 74 Warwick Road, Earls Court, Kensington. He was working as a lift attendant at London Consolidated Properties.
He married Sarah Naomi Wells in Watford in 1914. They had a daughter Christabel Annie Wells who was born on 12 June 1909 in Leverstock Green, Herts, before they were married and was baptised on 15 August 1909 at Holy Trinity Church, Leverstock Green. Christabel was living with her grandparents Thomas and Sarah Wells at Leverstock Green on the 1911 Census.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted in August 1914 immediately after the outbreak of war, and joined the 1st/13th (Kensington) Battalion, London Regiment. After a short period of training he arrived at Le Havre, France on 3 November 1914.
He was killed in action on 10 March 1915 at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle. He has no known grave but his name is commemorated on the le Touret Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His widow Sarah received his pay owing of £7 5s 10d and the guardian of his child, Mrs Martha Bigginshaw received the war gratuity of £3.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Kensington).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
