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Malcolm Ross

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Malcolm AWMM
  • Surname
    Ross AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI N/N AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    13 July 1862 AWMM Saddle Hill, Otago AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
  • Relationship status
    Married AWMM
    Married, 1 child AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
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    WWI N/N AWMM
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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Journalist/Civilian AWMM
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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Days interned
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Medical history

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Husband of Forrestina Elizabeth (1860-1936) and father of Noel Ross (6/134)

    Journalist and together with his wife Forrestina popularised mountaineering through their writings in newspaper articles.

    Was a reporter in Samoa 1899

    In Samoa in 1914 with the Samoan Advance

    Appointed Official War Correspondent WW1 but was never attested, only attached to NZEF, and there was not allocated a service number.

    Reported from the Dardanelles 1915

    Evacuated to Egypt late 1915

    Published "Light and shade in war" 1916

    Edited with his wife, "Noel Ross and his work" 1919 a memorial to their son who died of typhoid fever

    Contributed the New Zealand chapter in "The Empire at War" edited by Sir Charles Lucas

    After the war he returned to work as a journalist and worked as a correspondent for the Press and Otago Daily Times AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    15 April 1930 AWMM
    Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
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    Cremated at Karori Crematorium, Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
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  • Obituary
    Obituary: Evening Post, 15 April 1930

    Obituary: New Zealand Alpine Journal, 4 no. 17 (1930) AWMM
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