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Henry Ross enlisted at the start of the war and arrived in France on 7 Nov 1915, aged 51. He served in the Army Service Corps as a private and was pictured in uniform in the Beverley Guardian, in Mar 1916. He left the army in Feb 1919, as a private in the Labour Corps (2nd Company). Henry was awarded the War and Victory Medals as well as the 1914-15 Star.
Henry was born in Beverley the 10 Sep 1864, the son of Benjamin Ross and Mary (nee Whitfield), who married in 1842. The family lived in Walkergate and after the death of both parents Henry lived in the same property with his sister Harriett, a school mistress. Benjamin Ross had been a printer and compositor, as well as overseer, on the Beverley Guardian newspaper and Henry served a printer’s apprenticeship and qualified as a printer too. In the 1911 census he is recorded as boarding in Bridlington.
After the war Henry continued in the print industry, as a “letterpress printer” according to the 1939 Register. He married Harriett Eliza Massey in Driffield in 1934. They did not have any children. They moved to Ellerby where Harriett ran a fish and chip shop, whilst Henry had retired. He died in 1941 aged 76. Harriett died in 1967.
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