BORN 26/07/1895. ELDEST SON OF HARRY ELLERKER ROSS AND EVA ROSS, OF WHITTINGTON HOUSE, HIGHGATE, BEVERLEY. AKA ‘JACK’. THE ELDEST OF SIX CHILDREN. A COLOUR SERGEANT IN THE BEVERLEY CHURCH LAD’S BRIGADE. EDUCATED AT ST MARY’S SCHOOL, BEVERLEY AND THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE. HE WORKED IN THE SURVEYOR’S DEPARTMENT FOR BEVERLEY COUNCIL. ENLISTED BEVERLEY. EX CORPORAL, 1868, 5TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WENT TO FRANCE, IN APRIL 1915, WOUNDED YPRES, ON 02/03/1916. WAS COMMISSIONED IN TO THE ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION. SPENT THREE WINTERS IN THE FRONT LINE & WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AGED 23. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 16/10/1918. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE BEVERLEY WAR MEMORIAL, MEMORIAL GARDENS.
HE LEFT WIDOW, EDITH M. RAMSEY, WHO HE MARRIED IN BEVERLEY IN 1916.
Lt. Jack Ross, R.N. and Lt. Eric Mathers, Machine Gun Corps, were killed only two weeks before the Armistice. Both had attended St. Mary’s Boys School together, both had Church Lads Brigade decorations and both fell on the same day – 08/10/1918.
