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209076

Ord.Sig. Alexander Scott Ross

Royal Navy HMS Indefatigable

from:23 Buccleuch Street, Glasgow

(d.31st May 1916)

Alexander Scott Ross was an 18 year old Scot from Glasgow. He was an Ordinary Signaller in the Royal Navy lost when HMS Indefatigable was sunk in the Battle of Jutland on the 31st May 1916. A Glasgow newspaper report states:

Mrs and Mrs Ross, 23 Buccleuch Street Glasgow have received intimation from the Admiralty that their son Alexander Scott Ross A.B. HMS Indefatigable was killed during the Jutland sea fight. He was 18 years of age and had enlisted shortly before the outbreak of war, prior to which he was engaged in learning wireless telegraphy.



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