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Cenotaph Record
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Full Name
James Ross
Rank Last Held
Private
Forename(s)
James
Surname
Ross
War
World War I, 1914-1918
Serial No.
8/2309
First Known Rank
Private
Next of Kin
J. Ross (father), 33 Millais Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand
Marital Status
Single
Enlistment Address
33 Millais Street, Grey Lynn, New Zealand
Military District
Auckland
Body on Embarkation
  • Samoan Advance Party
  • 4th Reinforcements
Embarkation Unit
Otago Infantry Battalion
Embarkation Date
  • 15 August 1914
  • 17 April 1915
Place of Embarkation
  • Wellington, New Zealand
  • Wellington, New Zealand
Transport
Vessel
  • Moeraki or Monowai
  • Willochra or Knight Templar or Waitomo
Destination
  • Apia, Samoa
  • Suez, Egypt (25 May 1915)
Page on Nominal Roll
630
Last Unit Served
Otago Infantry Battalion
Place of Death
Gallipoli, Turkey
Date of Death
9 August 1915
Year of Death
1915
Cause of Death
Killed in action
Memorial Name
Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Memorial Reference
Panel 16
Biographical Notes
Brother of John W. Ross, of Wellington St., Hamilton East.
Description of Image
Portrait, Auckland Weekly News 1915. The image attached to this record may not be correct. There were two men by the name of James Ross from the Otago Infantry Regiment who died in Gallipoli.
Archives NZ source
Military personnel file
Sources Used
  • Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume I. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1914-1919
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission. URL: http://www.cwgc.org