Name
William Munro Ross
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/03/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Gordon Highlanders
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 39 to 41.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Cricket Club Memorial
Pre War
Born in Bishop's Stortford on 22nd March 1892, the only son of William Edmond Ross and Gertrude Maud (daughter of Thomas Bevan) of Stone Park, Greenhithe, Kent.
He was educated at St Andrew's, Eastbourne, Eton (J H M Hare's House) and Pembroke College, Cambridge. At the latter he was a member of the Pitt Club and took a Tripos degree in 1914. He was keen on hunting, shooting and cricket and was also musical.
Wartime Service
He was commissioned on 14th August 1914 as a University candidate in the 2nd Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders (ante-dated 25th October 1914) and confirmed to Lieutenant in December.
In January 1915 he took out a draft of the 2nd Battalion (formerly the 92nd) and was killed near the German trenches in an attack on Neuve Chapelle. A brother officer wrote "He was leading his platoon in splendid style when he was hit by several bullets."
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
