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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Ficksburg
• Land Free State, South Africa
• Family Son of George Walter and Ethelwyn May Ross, of Bethlehem, Orange Free State, South Africa.

Military service

• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 10th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Attached or transferred from Royal Scots Fusiliers
• Other data related to military career also served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers Regiment

Death

• Wounded Artillery observation patrol; aerial combat with enemy aircraft; his B5774 Armstrong-Whitworth FK8 was shot down, crashed; 2Lt AC Ross was the pilot, Nosworthy the observer (also died of wounds and buried in Lijssenthoek)
• Type of wounds Died of wounds
• Died at the age of 20
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - D - 3

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