Alexander Campbell ROSS ca 1865-1938 & Elizabeth McLELLAN 1867-1960
Casterton, Coleraine & Merino, Victoria, Australia
Alexander Campbell ROSS b. 1865 Casterton, Victoria, son of Donald ROSS and Margaret CAMPBELL married in 1889, ___, Victoria to Elizabeth McLELLAN b. 1867 Casterton, Victoria, daughter of William McLELLAN and Catherine McARTHUR.
Alexander Campbell ROSS was a blacksmith and Glenelg Shire councillor who lived at 'Glenloth' Merino.
Donald Secundus ROSS was one of their sons who served in WW1 and obtained a Soldier Settlement block on the Glenorchy Estate near Merino, Victoria.
Alexander Campbell ROSS and Elizabeth McLELLAN had the following family:
- Elizabeth ROSS b. 1890, d. 1890, Coleriane, Vic.;
- Donald Secundus ROSS b. 1892, Coleraine, Vic, m. ___.;
- enlisted 10 Jul 1915, SS Teacher
- served as Pte 2320, 8th Light Horse Regiment, 1st Camel Brigade HQs
- RTA 12 Jul 1919
- Glenorchy Estate (Merino) Soldier Settler
- Named on Merino War Memorial
- William "Bill" ROSS b. 1894, Merino, Vic, m. Kathleen RIGBY.
- Pte 1566, 21st Battalion, 1st AIF.
- enlisted 3 Apr 1915, Merino
- served in France
- POW, WIA, captured 26 Aug 1916, Mouquet Farm, Somme
- POW, 1916-1918, Germany
- repatriated 25 Dec 1918, England
- RTA 22 Apr 1919, Melbourne, Victoria
- Named on Merino War Memorial ?
- Ella ROSS b. 1896, Merino, Vic, d. 1978, Ballarat, Vic.;
- Belle ROSS b. 1898, Merino, Vic, m. ___ DOUGLAS.;
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