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|Name=William Stuart Ross
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|Rank=Captain
|image_caption = William Stuart Ross
|Number=
|Battalion=[[6th (Service) Battalion Border Regiment|6th Battalion Border Regiment]]
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|Where born=
|ServiceCountry=United Kingdom
|Where died=F & F
|How died=k.i.a.
|Age=25
|Date of death=23rd July 1917
|Casualty type=Commonwealth War Dead
|Grave ref=I. A. 5.
|Resting place=[[La Brique Military Cemetery No.2]]
|Additional info=Son of Dr and Mrs Douglas Ross of 19 Sackville Gardens, Hove, Sussex; Also served in Gallipoli and in Egypt.
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|scroll_name = William Stuart Ross
|scroll_battalion = 6th Battalion
|scroll_regiment = The Border Regiment
 
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|rank = [[Captain]] <ref name="national-archives">[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D4954399 Medal Card of William Stuart Ross] The National Archives. Ref: WO 372/17/95287. Accessed 20 May, 2020.</ref><br>[[Lieutenant]] / 22 December 1916 <ref name="usher">Max Usher (2017). ''Never to Return: Brighton College's Fallen 1914–18''. Bloomsbury. p.114.</ref><br>[[2nd Lieutenant]] (temp) / 13 November 1914 <ref>[https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/104763193 Promotions/Appointments - Army Lists, December 1914] National Library of Scotland. p.1173. Accessed 20 May, 2020.</ref><ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28976/page/9383/data.pdf William Stuart Ross - Temp. 2nd Lieutenant] Supplement to the London Gazette. 16 November, 1914. p.9383. Accessed 20 May, 2020.</ref>
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|company = C Company / Officer Commanding / October 1916 <ref>[[6th Battalion War Diary, October 1916]].</ref>
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|theatres = France and Flanders<br>Egypt<br>Gallipoli / Wounded in action along with fellow officer [[Herbert Branston de Montmorency|Lieutenant Montmorency]] / 8 August 1915 / Suvla <ref>[[6th Battalion War Diary, August 1915]].</ref>
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|name = William Stuart Ross
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|born = 6 March 1892 / Brighton, Sussex <ref name="usher"/>
|education = Cambridge University<br>Brighton College
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|parents = Dr Douglas Ross and Emma Ross (née Daniels) <ref name="usher"/> / 19 Sackville Gardens, Hove, Sussex
|siblings = Ronald Maynard Ross, also killed in the War / 4 March 1917 <ref>[https://www.surreyinthegreatwar.org.uk/person/118959 William Stuart Ross] Surrey in the Great War:
A County Remembers. Accessed 19 May, 2020.</ref>
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|nationality = English
 
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|casualty_type = Commonwealth War Dead
|died = 23 July 1917
|age = 25 Years
|cause_of_death = [[Killed in action]] along with 5 of his men by enemy [[shell]] fire while he was conducting a [[Lewis machine gun]] inspection <ref name="usher"/><ref>An extract from a Battalion letter of condolence reads: "He was such a fine boy, and so well liked by us all. We do miss him very much indeed, for we have lost a friend, a true soldier, and a very gallant gentleman. One of nature's own."</ref>
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|reference_number = I.A.5.
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|websites = [https://www.brightoncollegeremembers.com/roll-of-honour/1915 William Stuart Ross Remembrance] / Brighton College Remembers
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|biography = {{no biography}}
 
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File:Ross, William Stuart (Lieutenant).jpg|Lieutenant Ross
File:6th Border Regiment Officers, Egypt 1916.jpg|Lieutenant Ross (middle row, far right) Sidi Bashr, Egypt, 1916
</gallery>
 
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