| Regiment/Service: |
North Irish Horse (British Army) |
| Date Of Birth: |
25/04/1889
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| Died: |
21/08/1918 (Killed in Action) |
| Age: |
25 |
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Robert Ross was the son of John and Elizabeth Ross. He was born on 25th April 1889 at Brooke Street, Dungannon. He was one of nine children, eight surviving. Around 1890, the family moved to Belfast In 1901 his father was a linen sample maker. By 1911, Robert was working as a general labourer. Ross enlisted in the North Irish Horse. Private Robert Ross was killed in action on Wednesday 21st August 1918, probably during the assault on Beaucourt.
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The village of Beaumont-Hamel was attacked on 1 July 1916 by the 29th Division, with the 4th on its left and the 36th (Ulster) on its right, but without success. On 3 September a further attack was delivered between Hamel and Beaumont-Hamel and on 13 and 14 November, the 51st (Highland), 63rd (Royal Naval), 39th and 19th (Western) Divisions finally succeeded in capturing Beaumont-Hamel, Beaucourt-sur-Ancre and St. Pierre-Divion. Following the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of 1917, V Corps cleared this battlefield and created a number of cemeteries, of which Ancre British Cemetery (then called Ancre River No.1 British Cemetery, V Corps Cemetery No.26) was one. There were originally 517 burials almost all of the 63rd (Naval) and 36th Divisions, but after the Armistice the cemetery was greatly enlarged when many more graves from the same battlefields and from the following smaller burial grounds.
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