Great War Palestine June 1918 Officer Casualty pair awarded to Lieutenant E.N. Ross, 2nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch, formerly a Private with the 17th Service Battalion - the 3rd Glasgow, Highland Light Infantry, who was commissioned in January 1916, and saw service out in India from October 1916, and then in Mesopotamia from the summer of 1917, followed by Egypt and then Palestine from December 1917. Ross was killed in action by a Turkish shell on 27th June 1918.
British War Medal and Victory Medal; (LIEUT. E.N. ROSS.)
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine.
Evan Nicholas Ross was born in Rosehall, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, the only son of the Reverend John and Catherine Ross, and grew up in Polloksheilds, near Glasgow, where he attended Bellahouston Academy, and then the University of Glasgow, matriculating in the 1914/1915 session with the intention of following in his fathers footsteps as a minister, he was a member of the Glasgow University Officer Training Corps, but after only one year with the ongoing Great War, he then joined the British Army, enlisting as a Private into the 17th Service Battalion - the 3rd Glasgow, Highland Light Infantry on 7th July 1915.
Ross applied for a commission and was gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant into the 2nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders - the Black Watch on 4th January 1916, and was posted to India in October 1916, serving at Peshawar, Ambala, and Bangalore. During the summer of 1917 he was posted to Mesopotamia, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 4th July 1917, and then in December of that year transferred with his battalion to Egypt.
In 1918 he saw active service in Palestine, and towards the end of the campaign was killed in action by a Turkish shell on 27th June 1918, being buried in Ramleh War Cemetery. He is also commemorated with honour on the Bellahouston Academy Roll of Honour, and in the Polloksheilds Church Book of Remembrance, and in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel. Confirmed as his full entitlement.
