Background
Ross was born in 1864, the third son of General Sir Creative Commons G. Ross.
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Charles Ross
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He was educated at Stubbington, and joined the Norfolk Regiment in 1884. He was attached to the Egyptian Army in 1893 and 1894, and attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1897 to 1899.
Career
Shortly after leaving, he was posted to South Africa, following the outbreak of hostilities there, to act as a divisional signalling officer In 1904 he was posted to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as an instructor, and in 1905 was transferred to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst as the commander of a cadet company. He remained at Sandhurst until January 1908, when he was posted to the Staff College as an instructor.
He was well regarded as a lecturer by his students.
During the early stages of the war, Ross commanded a brigade. On 14 November 1915, he was appointed to command the 6th Division in the place of Walter Congreve, who had been promoted to command a corporations
He commanded the division during the Battle of the Somme, where it was engaged in September and October 1916. He held command until 18 August 1917, when he was relieved.
Whilst commanding the division, he was made a Companion of the Bath.
He subsequently commanded the 69th (2nd East Anglian) Division in the United Kingdom.
Ross wrote three books stemming from his academic work: Representative Government and War (1904). The Problem of National Defence (1907). And An Outline of the Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905 (1912).
He also wrote fiction, publishing at five mystery novels: The Fly-By-Nights.
The Haunted Seventh; Every Manitoba"s Hand. When the Devil Was Sick.
And The Castle Fenham Case.
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He was the younger brother of Sir Ronald Ross, who received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the method by which malaria was transmitted. He was then assigned to intelligence work on the staff, and remained in the country until July 1902, being mentioned in despatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
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