Date of Birth
8 August 1893
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Teacher at C. of E.S., Bothal, Northumberland
Service number
53268
WW1 rank
Private
Royal Army Medical Corps, 57th Field Ambulance, 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
11 September 1917
Buried/memorial
Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery, Belgium (Grave/Memorial reference: II.D.3)
Biography
Private Adam Ross was the son of George and Jane Rachel Ross. He attended Borough Road College for two years, graduating with an Intermediate Arts qualification. Whilst at the college he competed in intercollege sport. On the 1915 BFSS Annual Report he is asterisked as ‘currently serving in HM forces’, and is listed as being destined for a teaching position at a school in ‘Bothal, N’land’ [Northumberland]. Ross enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was killed on 11 September 1917, aged 24.
Sources
Entry on p.87 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, BFSS/2/9/8/6, First name provided by Stephanie Hornett, 1915 Annual reports, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission)