Staff Surgeon G. C. C. Ross

Regiment: Royal Navy
Date published: 04/12/1914
Killed in action: No
Information: Staff Surgeon G. C. C. Ross, R.N., eldest son of Surgeon-Colonel G. C. Ross, late I.M.S., and grandson of the late Charles A. Ross, M.D., of Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. He was lost in H.M.S. Hawke, which was sunk by a German submarine on 15th October, 1914. He was educated at Warwick and Trinity College, Dublin. Served in H.M.S. Magnificent, in the Ambassador's Yacht, H.M.S. Hussar (Constantinople), and in H.M.S. Niobe. He was in medical charge at Devonport Dockyards, and also at Whale Island School of Gunnery, and was appointed to the Hawke on the outbreak of the war. He was just forty years of age, and was a very skilful and successful surgeon, and was very popular in the Navy.