ROSS, Thomas Brunton
| Service Number: | 276 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | 20 December 1876, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Drayton, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Toowoomba Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Durban, South Africa, 1903, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 276, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
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| 22 Feb 1900: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 472 notes promoted to Corporal 22 Fe 1900. | |
| 1 Mar 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 276, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 463 notes 3rd QMI embarked 1 Mar 1900 aboard Duke of Portland arriving Cape Town 2 Apr 1900. | |
| 21 Jun 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 276, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 465 notes 3rd QMI embarked 9 May 1901 at Cape Town returning to Australia aboard Morayshire arriving Sydney 7 Jun 1901 (rail to Brisbane), disbanded 21 Jun 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Thomas Brunton Ross was the son of Robert Newcombe Ross and Mary Ann Falconer Ross. His father was a District Inspector of State Schools and since Thomas' birth the family had lived in the Toowoomba and Drayton district. Thomas had attended Toowoomba Grammar School and after finishing at the school spent about four years with the Department of Public Instruction then leaving with the intention to study at Melbourne University.
Around the same time the South African War had broken out and he instead enlisted in the 3rd Queensland Contingent and embarked to serve in South Africa. At completion of his service he returned to Queensland for a few months before returning to Natal, South Africa for employment with a government Department. He was officer in charge at the Permit Department in Durban, South Africa, on his untimely death at the age of just 27 years in 1903 having only just married three months prior.
Above extracted from obituary published in the Darling Downs Gazette, 1 Jan 1904, p. 3.
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