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Douglas O Ross
« on: Wednesday 01 June 22 15:57 BST (UK) »
Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for relatives of Trooper Douglas Ogilvie Ross.
Service 6180 - Regiment 1/2 Scottish Horse - - Died 20/6/1917 - buried Edinburgh Newington or Echo Bank Cemetery. (discharged 23/11/1915)
The Commission are in the process of producing a headstone to mark his grave.

UK Register of Soldiers Effects names mother Jemima.



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Re: Douglas O Ross
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 01 June 22 16:02 BST (UK) »
WW1 Pension Ledger - Spr Douglas O. Ross - 6180
Death Date 20 Jun 1917 - mother Jennie Ross.
Corps, Regiment or Unit Yeomanry (Scottish Horse)

UK, British Army World War I Pension Records -
Douglas Ogilvie Ross - 1915  - Reg No 6180 - discharged Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Residence Place 5 South Oxford Street, Edinburgh - Father John Ross.
Regiment Name The Scottish Horse
Territorial Force Attestation.

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Re: Douglas O Ross
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 01 June 22 16:08 BST (UK) »


1901 census :   2 Braid Place, Newington. Edinburgh.

John Ross 37   Head
Jemima Ross   36   Wife
John Francis Ross 13   Son
Robert Menzies Ross 11   Son
Helena Mary Elder Ross 8   Daughter
Douglas Ogilvy Ross 6   Son
Mary Katharine Elizabeth Ross
Under 5 Months   Daughter

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Re: Douglas O Ross
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 01 June 22 16:14 BST (UK) »
UK, British Army World War I Service Records -  Brother - Robert Menzies Ross
Enlistment Age  18
Birth Place Newington, Midlothian, Scotland
Military Date:   1909 - Regimental Number 5582
Regiment Name Royal Scots Fusiliers Special R??
Form Title Army Reserve Attestation.

Robert Menzies Ross   Self (Head)
John Ross   Father
Jemima Ross   Mother
John Ross   Brother
Douglas Ross   Brother

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Re: Douglas O Ross
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 01 June 22 16:37 BST (UK) »
Douglas Ogilvie Ross (23) died 1917, registered Morningside.

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Re: Douglas O Ross
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 01 June 22 19:46 BST (UK) »
Sister Helen Isabel Ross - mentioned on husband Walter French WW1 Pension Record.
Marriage 24 March 1914
Residence :- 60 Rodney Street. Edinburgh.

Walter French   Self (Head)
Helen Isabel Ross   Spouse
James Gordon French   Child. 11.6.1914
Margaret French   Child. 3.6.1916
Alice Milne French   Child. 11.10.1919

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Re: Douglas O Ross
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 01 June 22 22:02 BST (UK) »
I think this might be the death of sister:

MARY CATHERINE ROSS
Age 30
Mother's maiden name THOM
1931
685/1 198
Haymarket

No second surname, so likely unmarried at the time of her death.

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Re: Douglas O Ross
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 01 June 22 22:05 BST (UK) »
And death details for brother Robert Menzies Ross:

ROBERT MENZIES ROSS
Age 81
1971
685/8 2
Leith

Robert Menzies Ross and Margaret Lees married in 1926 in Edinburgh.

Grave details here for him and wife Margararet and a daughter https://billiongraves.com/grave/Robert-Menzies-Ross/7970406

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Re: Douglas O Ross
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 01 June 22 22:25 BST (UK) »
Eldest born David Ross who shows in 1891 died in 1897:

DAVID ROSS
Age 12
Mother's maiden name THOM
1897
685/5 718
Newington

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