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.[1]
In 1914, Ross from Victoria enlisted in the Field Artillery Brigade of the 1st Division, First Australian Imperial Force.[2] In 1915, Ross was at both the April landing and December evacuation of the Gallipoli Campaign.[3] 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.[3][4]
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