Claude Ross

Claude Murray Ross (13 May 1893 – 17 August 1917) was an Australian track and field athlete. Ross competed in the men's 400 metres hurdles for Australasia at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

In 1914, Ross from Victoria enlisted in the Field Artillery Brigade of the 1st Division, First Australian Imperial Force.[1] In 1915, Ross was at both the April landing and December evacuation of the Gallipoli Campaign.[2] In early 1917, he gained his commission in the Royal Flying Corps. Ross was killed on 17 August 1917 aged 24 in the skies over France.[2][3]

See also

References
  1. Coe, Bruce (2014). "Australasia's 1912 Olympians and the Great War". International Journal for the History of Sport. 31 (18): 2313–2325.
  2. "Second Lieutenant Claude Murray Ross". Everyman Remembered. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  3. "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2015.


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