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ROSS, John William Turtin
(Service number 6/979)

Sgt JWT Ross — (Otago Witness, 30 June 1915, p43 (Supplement) )

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Garden Road, Fendalton, New Zealand
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	E.J. Ross, 7 Garden Road, Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

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Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	10 May 1915	Age
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Twelve Tree Copse (New Zealand) Memorial, Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Helles, Turkey
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Geraldine War Memorial; Woodbury Church Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Edward James and Jane Wilson Ross, of 7, Garden Rd, Fendalton, Christchurch.

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