Surname:	Ross
Forename(s):	Douglas Stuart
Rank:	Lieutenant
Service number:
Regiment:	2nd Lincolnshire Regiment
Date of death:	1 July 1916 Aged 20
Place of death:	Somme (First day)
Buried Commemorated	Ovillers Military Cemetery – VIII.O.2 Kingussie War Memorial

Background

Douglas’s father was born at Gaskbeg, Laggan, Inverness-shire. Douglas was born Prestwich, Lancashire in 1895.

Douglas parents Alexander Ross, 32, and Annie, 21, (m.s. Stephens) married on 1 August 1877 at St Michaels, Toxteth, Lancashire. Both were of Upper Parliament Street, Toxteth Park, West Derby.

In 1911 Douglas attended the Rossall School, Fleetwood. The boarding school lost more than 280 former pupils during World War One. It ran an Officer Training Corps, preparing its pupils for war with rifle practice, trench-digging on school grounds and regular marches through Fleetwood. Douglas is named on the school war memorial along side six other former pupils “Rossallians” who died on 1 July 1916.

At the time of his death Douglas’s parents were living at 36 Fellows Rd, Hampstead, London

War Record

Douglas was confirmed in the rank of Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Bat The Lincolnshire Regiment – supplement to the London Gazette of 22 July 1915. He was promoted to Lieutenant in the Lincolnshire Regiment on 16 March 1916.

Douglas died on 1 July 1916 Killed in Action on the first day of the Somme aged 20. His remains were exhumed and reburied at Ovillers Military Cemetery. On 1 July 1916 the Lincolnshire Regiment lost a total of thirty officers and four hundred and forty-three other ranks.

Douglas brother, John Alexander, also died in World War One aged 33 on 26 October 1915. He is buried at Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos.

Also remembered on the Kingussie and Insh Memorial in Kingussie Parish Church and Rossall School Memorial, Fleetwood.