Service Details
Name:
 ROSS
Given Name:
 ARTHUR CLAUDE
Initials:
 A C
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Flying Corps
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Unit:
 10th Sqdn.
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Unit 2:
 and Royal Scots Fusiliers
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Date of Death:
 1917-12-06
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Date of Birth:
 1897-08-22
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, in hospital at Poperinge, near Ypres
Additional
Information:
Son of George Walter and Ethelwyn May Ross, of Bethlehem, Orange Free State, South Africa. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Royal Scots Fusiliers as a 2nd Lieutenant on 27 Oct 1916. He applied to transfer to the Royal Flying Corps. He was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps on 2 May 1917. He was posted to 10 Squadron in France on 3 August 1917. He was wounded in the stomach by machine gun fire from the ground while on an artillery observation and photography mission over Flanders with Lieutenant Claude William Michelin Nosworthy. Both officers died of wounds in hospital at Poperinge, near Ypres on 6 December 1917
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 XXVII. D. 3.

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