Trooper Hugh Ross

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Hugh Benjamin Ross

Ancestor's date of birth: 14/07/1878, Hawkes Bay NSW

Ancestor's date of death: 09/12/1946

Cause of Death: : Cebebral Haemorrhage 2 days and Hypertension 20 years

Service Number: 49

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Hay NSW, one of 200 Riverina Bushman raised by JS Horsefall of Wudgewa NSW

Unit: 3^rd NSW Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 1901

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War Service.

Murray Page: 161

Contingent: Fifth New South Wales.

Ship: Manhattan, Date of Sailing: 02/04/1901

Memorial details: Deceased Orange Base Hospital,Interred Presbyterian Cemetery Orange NSW.

Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal, SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: A mechanic, miner, boundry rider and rabbit trapper.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.

Details of service in war: May 1901 - May 1902 in Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: mid 1902 on Ansonia or 11 August 1902 on the Drayton Grange. Married Flora McKinnon in 1909. No other details provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Graham Patrick Ross, Cambridge Gardens NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

Name of Descendant: Pamela Langham, Orange NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Daughter

Name of Descendant: Glenn Wayne Ross, Bonnyrigg Heights NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

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