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VC92   John Ross

BORN   1822

DIED   23 October 1879  AGE   57

VC Won  21 July 1855  AGE  33

Place VC Won  Sebastopol, Crimea

War/Campaign  Crimean War

Name   John Ross  No.  997

VC Issue No.   92   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Corps of Royal Engineers

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won Corporal  

Rank End Of Career   Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Inch, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland

Place Of Death   London, England

Buried/Location Ashes  Islington Cemetery, High Road, East Finchley, London, England

Cremated

Date Buried/Cremated 26 October 1879  

Headstone  Unmarked    Plot/Grave no.   2nd Class Consecrated, Mausoleum Road, Section I, Block 2, Grave 9765

Gazetted   24 February 1857

VC Presented   26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria at Hyde Park, London, England

Memorials

P  Named on family headstone, Islington Cemetery, High Road, East Finchley, London

P  Named on 'For Valour' board at the Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent

By The Way…

Family headstone renovated early 2000's

VC Held By

Royal Engineers Museum, Brompton Barracks, Prince Arthur Road, Chatham, Kent, England

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He was awarded his decoration for three separate acts ; first for linking trenches with a large working party, secondly, doing similar work whilst under heavy fire and thirdly, creeping up to the Redan and discovering it had been evacuated. On the way back to report he rescued a wounded man

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