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Pte. Robert Ross
British Army 2nd Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Blairich, Rogart, Sutherlandshire
(d.4th Aug 1918)
Robert Ross was my grand-uncle, and it's only through ancestry research that I discovered him. He died in Flanders Fields and is remembered on the Rogart War Memorial.
Pte. Walter Alexander Ross
Australian Army 21st Battalion
from:Jamieson, Victoria, Australia
Walter Ross had been taken down by a bout of laryngitis while his Battalion were behind the lines at Jesus Farm near the River Lys doing infantry training. He'd paraded sick on 20th of May 1916 but despite being taken off duties and sent for medical care, it had worsened into Bronchitis and he was sent to the No. 5 Convalescent Hospital. He was subsequently sent to a hospital in England, and remained in England before returning to France on 12th of November 1916.
Walter was subsequently wounded again on 20th of March 1917, being shot in the thigh while his unit was attempting a flanking movement on the town of Noreuil, and required hospitalization at the No. 6 General Hospital in Rouen. The injury wasn't too serious and he rejoined his unit again a few weeks later.
He joined the 21st Battalion as they assaulted the Hindenburg Line at Bullecourt on 3rd of May 1917. Walter was in the 4th wave of troops who pushed forward against well entrenched machine guns, and a hail of High Explosive artillery shells. Walter was hit in the right shoulder by a machine gun bullet, fracturing his shoulder blade and lodging so deep that the doctors didn't dare remove it. He was one of 441 men from the 21st Battalion wounded that day, in addition to 67 killed and 60 missing. He was sent to England where he was assessed as having a permanent disability, and then returned to Australia on the hospital ship S.S. Borda, returning home to his wife Sarah and young son Vernon.
Spr. William Houston Ross
British Army 528 Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:South Shields
(d.14th Oct 1917)
William Houston Ross enlisted in Jarrow and served in 528 field Company, Royal Engineers. He is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph and is buried in Railway Dugouts Burial ground. His medal card shows the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals also that he was killed in action on the 14th October 1917.
William was born in South Shields 1894, son of William and Frances Ross nee Edwards. In the 1911 census the family are living at 25 Rosa Street, South Shields with William(55), a special railway porter for North Eastern Railways and Fraces(54), his wife of 33 years having 12 children of whom 10 survived. Seven, all single, are living here, George(26) assistant clerk to Justice, Walter(22) solicitors clerk, Harold(20) gasfitters shop assistant, Helen(18) Drapers shop assistant, William Houston(16)Grocers shop assistant, Gladys(15) and Norman(13) at school. There is also an adopted daughter Amy Ross who is 4 years old.
Pte. William Duncan Ross
British Army 4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Stiling
Nurse Alice Ross-King MM.
Australian Imperial Force
from:Australia
For Alice Ross-King of the Australian Imperial Force, nursing during the war included surviving a pretty dramatic German air attack at the Casualty Clearing station where she was working in St Omer, France. Only five days after her arrival in St Omer, German planes bombed the station. Missiles whistled out of the night sky and exploded all around her, throwing her to the ground. She staggered back to her feet, temporarily confused by the sound of planes and artillery roaring overhead. Bombs were bursting around the buildings and tents, but Alice ran straight into the danger zone, her only thought being the welfare of her patients. Alice Ross-King’s inspirational service under enemy fire earned her the Military Medal for great coolness and devotion to duty.
Major. Alice Ross-King MM.
Australian Imperial Australian Army Nursing Service
from:Australia
Alice Ross-King was born in Ballarat, Victoria, on 5 August 1891 to Archibald and his wife, Henrietta. When Alice was still young the family moved to Perth, where as the result of an accident Alice's father and two brothers were drowned in the Swan River. Soon after this Alice and her mother returned to Victoria. Before the war Alice Ross-King trained as a nurse, and she became a theatre sister in charge of a private hospital in Collins Street, Melbourne.
She enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in November 1914. During 1915 she served in hospitals and on hospital transport ships in Egypt and the Suez. In early 1916 she moved to France where she served with No. 1 Australian General Hospital and a stationary hospital before joining No. 2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station (2CCS), located close to the trenches at Trois Arbres near Armentières.
On the night of 22 July 1917 2CCS was attacked by German aircraft. Witness accounts describe nurses running to tents shattered by bombs to rescue patients, either carrying them to safety or placing tables over patient's beds in an effort to protect them. Alice and three other nurses, Dorothy Cawood, Mary Jane Derrer, and Clare Deacon, were awarded the Military Medal for their actions during the attack.
Alice Ross-King served as a nurse until the end of the war, upon which she returned to Australia. She married a doctor, Sydney Theodore Appleford, whom she met on the return journey in 1919, and they settled in South Gippsland and had four children. In the 1930s Alice was involved in training Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) and during the Second World War she enlisted for full-time duty with the VADs. By 1942 the VADs had developed into the Australian Army Women's Medical Services and Alice Appleford was commissioned as a major and appointed senior assistant controller for Victoria. She was awarded the Florence Nightingale medal in 1949 by the International Red Cross. Alice Appleford died on 17 August 1968 at Cronulla, Sydney. An annual award is presented to a serving member of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps by the Ex-AAWMS Association to perpetuate her memory.
Capt. George Archibald Rosser MID.
British Army 2nd Btn. Hampshire Regiment
George Rosser was commissioned into the Hampshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant on the 18the of Sept 1909, he was promoted to Lieutenant on the 1st of Novemeber 1911, and to Captain on the 13th of April 1915.
At the Gallipoli Landing, Lt Rosser served on board the 'River Clyde' in command of the machine guns. The action that took place on V beach has been well documented, but what is not well know, is that 'only the machine guns in the bow of the River Clyde ably controlled by Lt G.A. Rosser of the 2nd Hants and Commander Josiah Wedwood, M.P,, of the R.N.R, the moral effect of the naval guns, and possibly the barrier of wire prevented the Turks from counter-attacking and annihilation the party at the water's edge' - an Extract from the "History of the 29th Division" by Captain Stan Dillon.
Promoted to Captain and Adjutant, Rosser was present at the Battle of Krithia on the 28th April 1915, the second battle on 8th of May 1915 and the third battle on 4th of June 1915, during which, he was wounded. Captain Rosser later served in command of the 133rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps, serving in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
After the war Captain Rosser transferred to an armoured car unit of the Royal Tank Corps and served in Malabar, in command of No 8 Armoured Car Coy, later transferring to No 9 Armoured Car Unit, then serving in the Waziristan Campaign. Rosser ended his army career as Lt Colonel of the 1st (Light) Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment.
CSM. Harry Rossington
British Army 1st Btn. D Company Cheshire Regiment
from:Gorton, Manchester
(d.11th Oct 1914)
Company Sergeant Major Harry Rossington 7923 D Company 1st Cheshire Regiment was wounded at Audregnies on the 24th August 1914, he died of Wounds 11th October 1914, aged 28.
Harry was born in St Marks Parish, West Gorton, Manchester. He was born June 1886 and was the second son of Harry and Alice Rossington (nee Woolam). He married Sarah Jane Andrews in 1912 from Co Armagh and had one daughter Edith born 1913. His father, mother, brothers and sisters all moved to Ohio in 1912. Three of his brothers joined the War after his death and all made it. He is survived by a small number of the McCann & O'Neill family in Portadown, Co Armagh, many distant relatives in the USA and the UK. I am his great grandson and have visited his grave with my wife and two boys, he will not be forgotten and the family from Co Armagh are planning to visit again for the Centenary 2014.
Pte. John Frederick Rossington
British Army Army Ordnance Corps. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Boston, Lincolnshire
(d.26th March 1918)
My Grandfather John Frederick Rossington was born in Boston Lincolnshire and worked for George Wimple, general dealer at 32 High Street Boston. His parents where Mr and Mrs Joseph Thomas Rossington of 32 Albert Road, Frampton Place, Boston, Lincolnshire. He was married to Lily Rossington also of Boston.
John Frederick Rossington gave up his job and enlisted voluntarily on the 13th April 1915 at the age of 19 years 120 days old, Initially he joined the Army Ordnance Corps then then transferred to the Durham Light Infantry and afterwards to the North Staffordshire Regiment. After initial training he sailed for Egypt on November 1st. 1915 but was invalided home with dysentery. On recovery he was drafted to France but returned again to England with trench fever. He was on final leave about six weeks before he was killed. On September 25th 1917 he married Lily Longstaff, the daughter of William Longstaff, one of the Boston port pilots, of 37 Tawney Street, Boston. John left one child a daughter, Joy Gertrude Rossington.
At the start of Operation Michael on the 23rd March 1918 he was moved out of Ypres, Belgium and went into action at Mericourt, south of Albert on the Somme, on the 24th, they were forced back and on the 25th had retreated 2 miles, on the 26th. while they where still retreating he was killed in the vicinity of Dernancourt. My Grandfather body was never recovered and is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial. After research I think he is buried at Dernancourt communal cemetery with his friends who also fell on that day but have known graves.
Pte. John W. Rossington
British Army 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Lincoln
(d.3rd November 1916)
John Rossington served with the 7th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.
Pte. Stephen Rossiter
British Army 7th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:3 Marsh Lane, Barton Hill, Bristol.
(d.30th Nov 1915)
Stephen Rossiter was born in Bristol in 1877, son of Stephen and Annie (nee Ayland). He was the husband of Elizabeth (nee Shapcott) and father of Rosina Elizabeth and George. He died at Gallipoli, and is buried Azmak Cemetery, Suvla.
Pte. Stephen Rossiter
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Bristol
(d.30th Nov 1915)
My great uncle, Stephen Rossiter of the 7th Bn Gloucestershire Regiment, was killed in action, aged 40 years on 30th of November 1915. He was the son of Stephen & Annie Rossiter and husband of Elizabeth Rossiter of 3 Marsh Lane, Barton Hill, Bristol. He is buried at ANZAC Cemetery, Suvla. He was my grandmother's favourite brother and she always maintained that he had died from bayonet wounds, although I don't know how she came by this information.
L/Cpl. Wilfred James Campbell Rossiter
British Army Somerset Light Infantry
from:Taunton, Somerset
I never knew my grandfather Wilfred Rossiter. He left the marital home when my father was young. I have been researching my family for thirty year now. Unfortunately, little is known or available for this gentleman. I was fortunate to buy his war medals last October, and have sent a photo. He was initially in the Somerset Light Infantry. Later the Dorsetshire Regiment. Any information would be great. Strange thing, his name was Wilfred James Campbell Rossiter. Someone on processing the medal card has written William.
Pte. M. A. Rossouw
17th Mounted Rifles (Western Province Mounted Rifl
(d.28th October 1914)
Private Rossouw is buried in the Paarl South Dutch Reformed Churchyard, Western Cape, South Africa
Pte. P. A.A. Rossouw
South African Forces Springbok Commando Mounted Commandos
(d.23rd January 1915)
Private Rossouw is buried in the Modderfontein Farm Cemetery, Garies, Northern Cape, South Africa
Pte. Harold "Cocky" Rostron
British Army 11th Btn. Welch Regiment
from:Haslingden
Pte. Alfred Rotheram
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Sgt. Joseph Rotheram
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
served with 18th DLI and 20th DLI
Pte. Norman Bernard Vernon Rothery
British Army 8th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Kirkby-in-Furness, Lancs
(d.3rd Nov 1917)
The Rotherys had 12 children and divided their time beetween Kirkby-in-Furness, where Mr Rothery was 'inspector of railway material' on the Furness Railway, and their second big house in Chambres Road, Birkenhead. They lost two sons in the First World War: Eric died in the Merchant Service in February 1917, and Vernon Rothery died in Mesopotamia in November of the same year. Both brothers are commemorated on the war memorial at St Cuthbert's Church, Kirkby-in-Furness, now in Cumbria.
The History of Kirkby-in-Furness Group website has much more information about the family and their sacrifice.
Pte. William John Rothery
British Army 14th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Wheatley Hill
(d.10th May 1916)
My great grandfather, William Rothery, died of shrapnel wounds and fracture of the right tibia. He is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, the second largest CWGC cemetery in Belgium after Tyne Cot Cemetery.
Rfmn. A. J. Rothwell
British Army 10th Btn. D Coy. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Birmingham,
(d.12th Apr 1916)
Rifleman A J Rothwell served with D Company, 10th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps during WW1 and died on the 12th April 1916, aged 23. He is buried in Essex Farm Cemetery in Belgium. He was the son of James and Alice Mary Rothwell, of 57, Greenway St., Small Heath, Birmingham.
Robert Rothwell DSC.
US Army Battery F 10th Field Artillery Regiment
(d.26th Jul 1918)
Whilst having a walk in St Peters Churchyard, Halliwell, Bolton, England I came across a US soldiers grave. It was the grave of Robert Rothwell, apart from Roberts name the only other inscriptions on the grave were, New Jersey, Corpl, 10 Field Art, 26th of July 1918. At first I thought that Robert was American born. Research has discovered that Robert was born in Bolton in 1889, he served in the Royal Field Artillery in the British Army for a number of years. He emigrated to the US at some time and enlisted in the US army shortly after America entered the Great War. Due to his military experience he was involved with training his comrades prior to their arrival in France.
He was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, posthumously, the second highest gallantry award that could be bestowed on an American Soldier. The citation reads. 'The President of the United States of America, authorised by Act of Congress, July 9th 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross(Posthumously) to Corporal Robert Rothwell, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Battery F, 10th Field Artillery, 3d Division A.E.F. near Greves Farm, France, 15th of July 1918. Responding to a call for volunteers, Corporal Rothwell, with eight other soldiers, manned two guns of a French battery which had been deserted by the French during the unprecedented fire after many casualties had been inflicted on their forces. For two hours he remained at his post and poured an effective fire into the ranks of the enemy'.
Robert's brother, Thomas Rothwell had Robert's body re-interred in St Peters Churchyard on 11th of February 1922.
Pte. Sidney Rothwell
26th Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers
(d.3rd October 1918)
Gnr. William Henry Rothwell
British Army 69th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:North Fleet, Kent
(d.5th April 1918)
William Rothwell was my great-grand uncle, brother of my father's grandfather.
Sister. Rottenbaugh
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 16 Stationary Hospital
Pte. William Wallace Rough
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Scots
from:Edinburgh
(d.2nd November, 1917)
William Rough was killed on 2nd November 1917 and is buried in the Gaza War Cemetery.
Pte. James Martin Roughan
British Army 9th (Queens Royal) Lancers
James Martin Roughan was born on the 1st March 1893 and when in his teens, he lied about his age and joined the 9th Lancers as a boy soldier. He was mobilized in August 1914, by which time he was serving with the 9th Lancers and he took part in the charge of the 9th Lancers at Audregnies on 24th August 1914 against massed German Infantry.
He later took part in actions at the Marne and the Ainse, Ypres and Messines. He was wounded in March 1915 and returned to England. He rejoined in August 1916 and became an unpaid lance corporal in the same year. He became a paid Lance Corporal in October 1917, was wounded in March 1918, and was returned to England. Jim was present at the founding of the 9th Lancers old comrades association in 1921. He is listed in the 9th Lancers Museum Book as 774 J Roughan wounded 3/03/15 also 29/08/18.
The Roughan family has a long association with the 9th Lancers and James's father, Troop Sergeant Major John Roughan served with the 9th Lancers between 1863 and 1884 and served in Afghanistan and his brother John Edward Roughan, served in the 17th Lancers and later the Queens Regiment. Jim died in 1985 in Ashford, Middlesex rejoining his wife Alice May Dora "Peggy" Vickers who died twenty-one years earlier. He also had two half brothers, Oswald Stephen and Herbert Joseph Roughan, both 6th Dragoons served in the Boer war and WW1.
Col.Sgt. Edward Roughley
British Army 14th (London Scottish) Btn. London Regiment
from:Lewisham
Edward Roughley was a 1st Class Instructor at the School of Musketry. He was wounded by a gas shell in August 1918 and evacuated to England.
Pte. George Rought
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Pelton Fell
(d.19th May 1916)
George Rought is buried in Becourt Millitary Cemetery
Pte. Walter Rougvie
British Army 5th Battalion Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
from:37 Main Street, Thornton, Fife
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