Donald ROSS

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Service Number:	86
Enlisted:	13 October 1899, Selected at Melbourne
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Victorian Mounted Rifles
Born:	Macarthur, Victoria, Australia, 6 March 1877
Home Town:	Byaduk, Southern Grampians, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Pthisis/exhaustion (death certificate), Noradjuha, Victoria, Australia , 15 November 1900, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	Byaduk Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Byaduk Boer War Memorial, Hamilton Boer War Memorial

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 86
13 Oct 1899:	Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 86, 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles, Selected at Melbourne
20 Oct 1899:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 86, 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles, SS Medic, Melbourne for South Africa.
14 Jul 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 86, 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles, SS Persic, Capetown for invaliding to Australia - arriving Melbourne 9 August 1900

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