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From: "Margaret Rose" <>
Subject: [WW1] NZ Official Historian ROSS
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:02:26 +1000


I wasn't aware that New Zealand had an official historian, and would
appreciate any information anyone could give me about him. I am particularly
interested in his son Noel ROSS, a Lance-Corporal (NZ unit?) who landed at
Ari Burnu on April 25th, and was involved in a rescue of some of the few
survivors from the boats which had come under heavy fire on the extreme left
of the landing.
In Volume I of the "Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918"
C.E.W. Bean gives the "wonderful account" of the rescue that Ross described
in a letter to his father, and describes him as a "brilliant young
journalist" who died in London in December 1917. (I can't find him on the
CWGC.)

Margaret ROSE
Wagga Wagga

Researching
TREACHER (ROSS):Bombay, Battersea, Lewisham, Penge, Napier, Auckland
BATEMAN :Brixton, Lambeth
BRADSTREET :Mitcham, Anerley
McCLEARY :Lurgan, Newmills, Farlough
SMITH :Newmills, Farlough



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