ROSS, John Seymour
| Service Numbers: | W44928, WX35523, WX35523 / W44928 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Signalman |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Albany, Western Australia, 9 November 1923 |
| Home Town: | Bornholm, Albany, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Fremantle, Western Australia, 1 June 2010, aged 86 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia MCB-525980-V6Z8V9 - FC00058603 FREMANTLE CEMETERY Cremation |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 9 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W44928 | |
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| 18 Nov 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, W44928 | |
| 19 Nov 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, WX35523 | |
| 4 May 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, WX35523, embarked Townsville for Port Moresby on board Duntroon | |
| 29 Aug 1944: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, WX35523, embarked Moresby for Townsville on board the Canberra | |
| 29 May 1945: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, WX35523, embarked Brisbane for Morotai on board Morgan Robertson | |
| 26 Feb 1946: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, WX35523, embarked Labuan for Brisbane on board Lake Charles Victory | |
| 2 Sep 1946: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Signalman, WX35523 | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Signalman, WX35523 / W44928 |
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Signalman John Ross (Service No:WX35523) initially served in the ACMF (Private; Service No:W44928) with Area Signals in Western Australia (Mullewa, Norseman and Northam) from 18 May 1942 to 18 November 1942. Signalman Ross enlisted 'in the field' in the AIF on 19 November 1942 and served with 25 Line Section in New Guinea (31 March 1943 to 29 August 1944) and in Borneo (29 May 1945 to 16 February 1946). Signalman Ross was atatched to 25 Australian Line Section at Discharge on 2 September 1946.
John (Jack) Seymour Ross was born in Albany WA in 1923, youngest of nine children of Alexander Ross (b1876 in Bungaree, Victoria) and Lillian May Saul (b1885 in York, WA). Alexander was working on the Mundaring-Coolgardie water pipeline in 1907 when he and Lillian married in Midland Junction, Guildford, WA. By 1910 they had moved to Torbay on the Denmark Line via Albany before settling in Bornholm via Albany by 1916. Alexander worked as a Farmer and Foreman with Public Works.
Jack worked as a Farm Hand in Bornholm before enlisting in the Army. In 1948 in Albany he married Elvie Jean Monck (b1930 in Albany, WA) and settled at Bornholm where he was a Farmer. In 1949 Jack and his brother Ray discovered their father's body in the home - Alexander had shot himself. Jack and Elvie lived at Bornholm, where Jack was a Farmer until the late 1950s when they settled in Albany and Jack worked as a Labourer and Contractor. In the mid 1970s they moved to Perth (Applecross) where Jack worked as a Greenkeeper. Jack died in 2010 and Elvie in 2019.
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