The Private John Hawley Ross Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.

John Ross was the second Mount Royal student killed in the First World War. Born in Toronto, Ross attended Mount Royal from 1912 to 1913 and later worked as a clerk. He enlisted on August 23, 1915, in Halifax, Nova Scotia with the Royal Canadian Regiment. Serving less than a year, Private Ross was instantly killed in France by a bomb dropped from an enemy airplane. Along with fellow Mount Royal student Private James Arnell, he received the 1914–1915 Star, a First World War medal awarded by the British government.