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Douglas William Robertson Ross

In memory of:

Second Lieutenant Douglas William Robertson Ross

January 11, 1918

Military Service


Age:

24

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Flying Corps

Division:

45th Squadron

Additional Information


Son of Mrs. L. W. Ross, late of Ontario. Honor Graduate, McGill University.

Commemorated on Page 593 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

TEZZE BRITISH CEMETERY
Italy

Grave Reference:

Plot 6. Row B. Grave 2.

Location:

Tezze is a village in the Province of Treviso, a large town north of Venice. The village is 8 kilometres east of Susegana, a town on the main road some 24 kilometres north of Treviso. The British Military Cemetery lies about 270 metres south of the village of Tezze.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Newspaper clipping– From the Daily Colonist of April 7, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist60y104uvic/page/n1/mode/1up?view=theater. Note that Second Lieutenant Ross's regimental number was 1015890 while he served in the C.E.F.
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Vancouver Daily Province April 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Press Clipping– From the "McGill Honour Roll, 1914-1918".  McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 1926.

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