Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Ross, Frank Colin

He embarked Hobart 8^th May 1916 on board “HMAT Seang Choon” with the 12^thInfantry Battalion and was killed by machine gun fire at La Barque 25^th February 1917. He is commemorated in the Warlencourt British Cemetery, France.

Mrs Ross of Mandeville, Southland has received word of the death of her son, Private Frank Colin Ross, who enlisted in Victoria with one the Australian contingents, leaving the Commonwealth in May 1916 and arriving in France in August.

He was born at Wantwood homestead, Southland in 1886 and educated at the Mandellive public school. After leaving school, he took up cheesemaking and later managed the Wanganui dairy factory for Mr McDonald for three years.

He left for Australia, and with a partner he established a dairy factory in Victoria but disposed of his interest in it to take up the management of a Government cheese factory in Tasmania. Private Ross was the sixth son of the late Duncan Ross, and was a brother of Mr A C Ross, Government grader, who is well known throughout Southland and Otago. Another brother is his Private James Oswald Ross who was killed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in May 1915 and a third brother also saw active service with the New Zealand Main Body being finally invalided home. Two younger brothers also volunteered but failed to pass the medical test

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15877, 17 April 1917, Page 8

New Zealand

l-r Pte F. C. Ross and Pte G. A. Fraser

Memorial Plaque Glen Waverley Victoria

Photos Courtesy Geoff Dare

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