Death: In Amiens, Somme, Picardie, France. He was wounded during the attack on Parvillers and he died later at No. 48 Casualty Clearing Station.

Original name of cemetery: Dury Hospital Military Cemetery.
Internment location: Grave: 21; Plot: 3; Row: G.

Corporal Alexander Everett Ross family memorial in Fairview Cemetery, Lacombe, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.

Military Information: Great War (World War I)

Enlisted: 13 March 1916, Edmonton, Alberta.
Unit: 49th Battalion, Over Seas CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Forces)
Service number: 904398

Memorial:

Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada, http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/576652?Alexander%20Everett%20Ross


Biographical Information:

Alex was the seventh born child, only son, of nine known children of Duncan Ross and Henrietta Marie Hodgins.

His family migrated from Pontiac, Québec, Canada sometime after May 1898 and before March 1901 to Lacombe, The Territories (Alberta), Canada.

He is enumerated with his parents and siblings:
1901 and 1911, Lacombe, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
1916, Sarcee, Edmonton West, Alberta, Canada; Occupation: Teacher in public school.

Residence:
13 March 1916, La Marchand Mansion, Edmonton, Alberta. Occupation: Teacher.

Photograph of the memorial stone emblem for Canada. Courtesy with Copyright permission granted by Inmemories.com © Pierre Vandervelden - Belgium 2004, 26 July 2013 to unigift. Merci beaucoup!


Military and Biographical Information submitted, 7 October 2014, MEB (#47998630)

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