Robert McKay Ross

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

270187

Unit at enlistment:

215th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Commemorated at:

Paris Presbyterian Church

Birth country:

Scotland

Birth county:

Sutherlandshire

Birth city:

Loth

Address at enlistment:

Paris, Ontario

Next of kin address:

Paris, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Religious denominations:

Presbyterian

Marital status:

Married

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX December 11, 1918

Veterans Have Returned Home – Number of Them were Victims of German Poison Gas

A party of Brantford soldiers returned home yesterday afternoon and were met at the depot by Secretary MacDonald of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission. All the members of the party were walking cases but had suffered more or less from the effects of gas poisoning. Raymond Girdlestone was probably in the worst condition of any of the party, but all were mighty glad to get back to good old Brantford once more. The party included the following: Roy J. Kelso, 9 West Mill Street; Albert Bennett, Terrace Hill; R.M. Ross, Grandview; Raymond Girdlestone, 144 East Avenue; Robert Charlick, 148 Wellington Street; and F.J. Hooper, L. Shuert, Baldwin Avenue remained at Whitby hospital.