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Surname: ROSS
Forename(s): Robert
Place of Birth: Brierfield, Lancashire
Service No: 60126
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Battalion / Unit: 14th Machine Gun Company
Division: 32nd Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1917-04-16
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 5 C and 12 C.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: WADDINGTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Robert Ross (true name: Aaron Kerridge), was the son of Aaron and Louisa Ann Kerridge, née Forrest and brother of Private Harry Kerridge (242295) 8th (Service) Bn King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), killed in action, 16 August 1916. Their father was born at Stanton, Suffolk and mother at Barnoldswick, Yorkshire. The cousin of Aaron (Robert) and Harry, Private Charles William Kerridge (240908), 2/5th Bn East Lancashire Regiment, died of wounds, 29 March 1918. They were also probably distantly related to Private Harry Kerridge (6514), 2nd Bn King's (Shropshire Light Infantry), who died of wounds 18 May 1915.
1881 Great and Little Marsden, Lancashire Census: 14, Lindred Lane - Aaron Kerridge, aged 9 months, born, Brierfield, Lancashire, son of Aaron and Louisa Kerridge.
1891 Great and Little Marsden, Lancashire Census: 14, Lindred Lane - Aaron Courage, aged 10 years, born, Brierfield, Lancashire, son of Aaron and Louisa Ann Courage.
1901 Brierfield, Lancashire Census: 186, Colne Road - Aaron Kerridge, aged 20 years, born Brierfield, son of Aaron and Louisa A. Kerridge.
Aaron was married to Jane Alice Howarth in 1903.
1911 Clitheroe, Lancashire Census: 6, Moss Street - Robert Ross, aged 29 years, birth place unknown. [Robert (Aaron Kerridge) was boarding with Joseph and Betsey Alice Smith. Jane Alice Kerridge, his wife, and adopted son, William Edward Mally or Kerridge, were living at the time with her father, Edward Howarth, at 14, Cross Street, Brierfield, Lancashire.]
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Robert Ross, 60126, M.G.C.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Robert Ross, 60126, M.G.C. Killed in Action 16.4.17.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Robert Ross, 60126, 14th Co Machine Gun Corps. Date and Place of Death: 16.4.17. France or Belgium. In action. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Jane A. & children. £4 18s. 8d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: Pte Aaron Kerridge alias William [sic] Ross, 60126, Machine Gun Corps. Date and cause of death: 16.4.17. Widow, Jane Alice Ross, born 15.8.80. Address: 89, Back Fold, Waddington near Clitheroe. Children: William Edward Mally (adopted), born 7.10.04.
Robert (Aaron) is commemorated on the Clitheroe War Memorial and the St Michael and St John the Evangelist R.C. Church War Memorial, Clitheroe.
Data Source: Local War Memorial
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 32nd Division
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Private Harry Kerridge (killed in action, 16 August 1916), brother of Aaron Kerridge (Robert Ross)
'Burnley Express' (28 July 1917)
Private Charles William Kerridge (died of wounds, 29 March 1918), cousin of Aaron Kerridge (Robert Ross)
‘Burnley Express’ (13 April 1918)
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