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Claude Ross

Claude Ross

Australian track and field athlete

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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References

  1. [1]
    "Claude Ross". Olympedia. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  2. [2]
    Coe, Bruce (2014). "Australasia's 1912 Olympians and the Great War". International Journal of the History of Sport. 31 (18): 2313–2325. doi:10.1080/09523367.2014.918107. S2CID 144974200.
  3. [3]
    "Second Lieutenant Claude Murray Ross". Everyman Remembered. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  4. [4]
    "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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