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Australians
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| Surname | | ROSS |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Thomas Brunton |
| Regimental Number | | 276 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| State | | Qld |
Extracts and Comments
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Murray: Corporal 22.2.1900.
B5172: PO Drayton Qld.
URL2: photo #276 single PO Drayton Qld.
URL3: DEATH OF TB ROSS. The friends of Mr. Thomas Brunton ROSS will regret to learn, of his death which is just reported from Durban, South Africa. Mr. ROSS was the third son of Mr. E Newcombe ROSS, District Inspector of State schools, and was almost a native of Toowoomba, and Drayton, where almost the whole of his life was passed. After leaving the Grammar School Mr. ROSS entered the service of the Department of Public Instruction where he remained for three or four years, and then left for the purpose of proceeding to the Melbourne University. The South African war had meantime broken out and changing his mind, he joined the Third Queensland Contingent. At the expiration of his service he returned to Queensland where be remained for a few months, Afterwards proceeding to Natal where he received a Government appointment. At the time of his death he was the officer in charge of the Permit Department at Durban. The deceased young gentleman, was only twenty-seven years of age at the time of his death and the sad termination of a young life that gave ample promise of being of much benefit to the community in which he lived is invested with additional sorrow by the fact that he had been married for only three months. Mr. ROSS was of a bright joyous disposition, which made him a pronounced favourite with everyone young and old with whom he came in contact, and the feeling of sad ness among his Queensland friends will be extreme when they learn that he has been called away so early. To the bereaved father and brothers, and his sister, Mrs. CS EDEN, we tender the sympathy which is felt by all who knew Tom ROSS.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 472
B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172
Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 3.3.1900
DDownsGz: Darling Downs Gazette newspaper date(s) 1.1.1904
| | External Link URL1 | | www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf | | External Link URL2 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-page2518783 | | External Link URL3 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article170476378 |
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