Service Details
Name:
 ROSS
Given Name:
 FRANCIS MCWILLIAM
Initials:
 F M
Service No:
 12786
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Former Regiment:
 formerly SA Signal Service
Date of Death:
 1918-09-12
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Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Drowned at sea (from S.S. "Galway Castle"), as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine 160 miles S.W. and .5 S. of the Fastnet
Additional
Information:
Son of Arthur Peter and the late Emily Ross, of Aig, Boshoff St., Pietermaritzburg, Natal. Commemoration stone in Pietermaritzburg (Commercial Road) Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Hampshire
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Cemetery:
 HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL, SOUTHAMPTON
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 49.

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